Re: backing up email / saving maildir on external hard drives

2015-08-07 Thread Christian Kivalo
Am 08. August 2015 06:56:55 MESZ, schrieb Kevin Laurie : >Hello, >Yesterday I tried to back up a 40GB maildir . >I tried to move the maildir from home to external HDD but failed. >Decided >then to compress it(which took several hours). Now changing the disk >format >from FAT to exFAT to allow th

backing up email / saving maildir on external hard drives

2015-08-07 Thread Kevin Laurie
Hello, Yesterday I tried to back up a 40GB maildir . I tried to move the maildir from home to external HDD but failed. Decided then to compress it(which took several hours). Now changing the disk format from FAT to exFAT to allow the transfer for the large compressed file. How does one back up ema

Re: Using a separate passdb per service

2015-08-07 Thread Edgar Pettijohn
I'm not sure if this would work, but possibly having two separate instances of dovecot with separate configs running may work for you. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/RunningDovecot On 08/07/15 11:04, Gerry wrote: Situation: one front-facing server running Dovecot as IMAP/POP3/ ManageSieve proxy, a m

Using a separate passdb per service

2015-08-07 Thread Gerry
Situation: one front-facing server running Dovecot as IMAP/POP3/ ManageSieve proxy, a mixture of IMAP servers (Dovecot, Exchange, ...) in the back-end. Dovecot's passdb does lookups against MySQL which contains a simple user/host mapping, the actual authentication happens on the back-end IMAP serve

Re: pigeonhole/lda accessing -m folder

2015-08-07 Thread matthias lay
fixed my problem. if somebody is interested. I added an variable to the environment extension, which is quite easy. And the value of the folder is already there. so this is all: src/lib-sieve/plugins/environment/ext-environment-common.c static const char *envit_spfolder_get_value (struct sieve_

Re: pigeonhole/lda accessing -m folder

2015-08-07 Thread matthias lay
hi jost thx for the reply, by access I mean to read the variable require ["fileinto", "variables", "?destfolder?" ]; if anyof ( destfolder :matches "*") { fileinto "${1}/subfolder"; }else{ fileinto "INBOX/subfolder"; } On 08/07/2015 12:26 PM, Jost Krieger wrote: > On Fri Aug 7

Re: pigeonhole/lda accessing -m folder

2015-08-07 Thread Jost Krieger
On Fri Aug 7 12:19:22 2015, matthias lay wrote: > anybody knows, if there is a way to acces the folder from a call like this > > deovecot-lda -m destfolder > > from within a sieve script? Depending on what you mean by "access", this could be as easy as require "fileinto"; fileinto "destfo

pigeonhole/lda accessing -m folder

2015-08-07 Thread matthias lay
Hi all, anybody knows, if there is a way to acces the folder from a call like this deovecot-lda -m destfolder from within a sieve script? thx in advance matze

Re: opening a maildir ?

2015-08-07 Thread Marc Stürmer
Zitat von Kevin Laurie : What would be a convenient way to access all the emails ( I want to go through and download all attachments). So a tool with some GUI will be nice. Thunderbird with spool access. https://addons.mozilla.org/de/thunderbird/addon/attachmentextractor/

opening a maildir ?

2015-08-07 Thread Kevin Laurie
Hello, I have a maildir on my Ubuntu PC. I used imapsync + dovecot to copy all my emails on it. What would be a convenient way to access all the emails ( I want to go through and download all attachments). So a tool with some GUI will be nice. Appreciate if someone could help here. Thanks Kevin