Upgrading dovecot 2.2 to 2.3 without downtime when using proxy/director?

2018-05-05 Thread Niels Kobschätzki
Hi, I have a setup with several dovecot-servers (2.2.35) and I use dovecot proxy. I upgraded one server to 2.3.1 and got the configs fixed so far that it started again. But when I tried to add it into the proxying again with "doveadm director add" I see the following in the logfiles: May 6 07:19

2.3.1 Replication is throwing scary errors

2018-05-05 Thread Andy Weal
Hi all, New to the mailing lists but have joined up because of above */2.3.1 Replication is throwing scary errors /*Brief system configuration     MX1 - Main         Freebsd 11.1-Release-p9         Hosted on a Vultr VM in Sydney AU         MTA = Postfix 3.4-20180401         Dovecot = 2.3.1   

Re: expiring mail from root's Maildirs?

2018-05-05 Thread @lbutlr
On 2018-05-05 (11:19 MDT), Aki Tuomi wrote: > > You could use tool like sudo or su to run mutt as non-root, instead of > running it as root? Thanks, that did work. Took a little, but no more sent mail in ~root. -- Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici

Re: expiring mail from root's Maildirs?

2018-05-05 Thread Benny Pedersen
Larry Rosenman skrev den 2018-05-05 19:19: What happens if you put the following in /root/.muttrc: Set record='/file/to/put/mail/in' ? indeed possible, but this file will only be possible to read from root user if it can be readed by other, its a security problem

Re: expiring mail from root's Maildirs?

2018-05-05 Thread Larry Rosenman
The /file/to/put/mail/in? Or ? -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 214-642-9640 E-Mail: larry...@gmail.com US Mail: 5708 Sabbia Drive, Round Rock, TX 78665-2106 On 5/5/18, 3:21 PM, "dovecot on behalf of @lbutlr" wrote: On 2018-05-05 (11

Re: expiring mail from root's Maildirs?

2018-05-05 Thread @lbutlr
On 2018-05-05 (11:19 MDT), Larry Rosenman wrote: > > What happens if you put the following in /root/.muttrc: > Set record='/file/to/put/mail/in' I get a mail still owned by root. -- May you live in interesting times

Re: expiring mail from root's Maildirs?

2018-05-05 Thread @lbutlr
On 2018-05-05 (11:19 MDT), Aki Tuomi wrote: > > You could use tool like sudo or su to run mutt as non-root, instead of > running it as root? Maybe. Not sure if piping output in front to su will work, but I can certainly try it. -- "Making music should not be left to the professionals." - M

Re: expiring mail from root's Maildirs?

2018-05-05 Thread Aki Tuomi
> On 05 May 2018 at 20:14 "@lbutlr" wrote: > > > On 2018-05-05 (06:52 MDT), Benny Pedersen wrote: > > > >> And yet it is. > > > > in muttrc you miss ~ or $(HOME)/something > > No. > > >> Root has been aliased for decades. This has no impact on where and how > >> mutt stores the mail it sen

Re: expiring mail from root's Maildirs?

2018-05-05 Thread Larry Rosenman
What happens if you put the following in /root/.muttrc: Set record='/file/to/put/mail/in' ? -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 214-642-9640 E-Mail: larry...@gmail.com US Mail: 5708 Sabbia Drive, Round Rock, TX 78665-2106 On 5/5/18, 12:15 PM, "

Re: expiring mail from root's Maildirs?

2018-05-05 Thread @lbutlr
On 2018-05-05 (06:52 MDT), Benny Pedersen wrote: > >> And yet it is. > > in muttrc you miss ~ or $(HOME)/something No. >> Root has been aliased for decades. This has no impact on where and how >> mutt stores the mail it sends as root out of root’s crontab. > > root user can read mail files fo

Re: expiring mail from root's Maildirs?

2018-05-05 Thread Benny Pedersen
And yet it is. in muttrc you miss ~ or $(HOME)/something root: some-other-unix-login Root has been aliased for decades. This has no impact on where and how mutt stores the mail it sends as root out of root’s crontab. root user can read mail files for all unix users, thats your fail, may