Re: High Load average on NFS Spool - v.2.1.15 & 2.2.13

2018-12-18 Thread Albert E. Whale, CEH CHS CISA CISSP
I have, but I will be happy to review it once again. On 12/18/18 2:14 PM, admin wrote: Am Dienstag, den 18.12.2018, 14:06 -0500 schrieb Albert E. Whale, CEH CHS CISA CISSP: I have two servers pointing to an NFS mounted mail spool with dovecot.  Since I recently switched from using Dovecot v1

High Load average on NFS Spool - v.2.1.15 & 2.2.13

2018-12-18 Thread Albert E. Whale, CEH CHS CISA CISSP
ster_address = postmas...@example.com } protocol imap {   mail_max_userip_connections = 40 } Can you please offer a suggestion on what is happening?  The timeouts to the imap server are frequent due to the load average. Thank you. -- -- -- Albert E. Whale, CEH CHS CISA CISSP *President

[Dovecot] Configuring mbox and maildir formats - dovecot-1.2.15

2011-10-27 Thread Albert E. Whale
the default of mbox, and then the new Maildir format (users will get upgraded individually from mbox to Maildir, and need to be upgraded). Thank you. -- Albert E. Whale, CHS CISA CISSP Senior Technology & Security Director *ABS Computer Technology, Inc. * 412-635-7488 ext 100 aewh...

Re: [Dovecot] Multiple domains to one inbox and temporary redirects...

2011-08-31 Thread Albert E. Whale
ess plug -- Albert E. Whale, CHS CISA CISSP Senior Technology & Security Director *ABS Computer Technology, Inc. * 412-635-7488 ext 100 aewh...@abs-comptech.com <mailto:aewh...@abs-comptech.com> www.ABS-CompTech.com <http://www.ABS-CompTech.com> <>

[Dovecot] UID/GID changed

2008-12-05 Thread Albert E. Whale
mail8 Nov 5 19:00 dovecot-uidvalidity -rw-rw 1 mike mail0 Nov 5 19:00 dovecot-uidvalidity.4912338c drwx--S--- 2 mike mail 4096 Dec 5 11:46 new/ drwx--S--- 2 mike mail 4096 Dec 5 11:46 tmp/ What am I missing? -- Albert E. Whale, CHS CISA CISSP Sr. Security, Network and Systems

Re: [Dovecot] mail_location: mbox: mkdir failed

2008-10-29 Thread Albert E. Whale
Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 12:30 -0400, Albert E. Whale wrote: > >> Timo Sirainen wrote: >> >>> On Oct 27, 2008, at 2:15 PM, Albert E. Whale wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Is there an automatic solution to this? >

Re: [Dovecot] Authentication Error Message formats

2008-10-29 Thread Albert E. Whale
Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 09:49 -0400, Albert E. Whale wrote: > >> I have been using UW's IMAP server and I am converting to Dovecot for >> Maildir support. >> >> When a user fails authentication, or a user does not exist, it appears >>

Re: [Dovecot] Authentication Error Message formats

2008-10-29 Thread Albert E. Whale
Charles Marcus wrote: > On 10/29/2008, Albert E. Whale ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> When a user fails authentication, or a user does not exist, it appears >> that the same message is used for these events. >> > > When asking for help, it is always a g

Re: [Dovecot] Cannot use userdb to update Maildir

2008-10-29 Thread Albert E. Whale
gt; So the line should look like this: > > health:$1$MCtvt/Tz$FmKqU/cbWlBhKnhc5W.Ko.:1152:1152::/home/health::userdb_mail=maildir:~/Maildir > > Thank you to everyone that responded to this posting. This issue is now resolved. -- Albert E. Whale, CHS CISA CIS

[Dovecot] Authentication Error Message formats

2008-10-29 Thread Albert E. Whale
ation Failure (Failed Password)? Clearly these two failures indicate a different error in the system. One that some forgot their password, the other indicates a dictionary attack. -- Albert E. Whale, CHS CISA CISSP Sr. Security, Network, Risk Assessment and Systems Consu

Re: [Dovecot] Cannot use userdb to update Maildir

2008-10-28 Thread Albert E. Whale
=/var/spool/mail/health Oct 28 16:42:17 ns6 dovecot: POP3(health): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 Oct 28 16:42:17 ns6 dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=31252 -- Albert E. Whale, CHS CISA CIS

[Dovecot] Cannot use userdb to update Maildir

2008-10-28 Thread Albert E. Whale
r=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 The /home/dovecot.passwd has the following. more /home/dovecot.passwd health:$1$MCtvt/Tz$FmKqU/cbWlBhKnhc5W.Ko.:1152:1152:/home/health:userdb_mail=mai ldir:~/Maildir WHY can I get the emails from ~health/Maildir/new ??? -- Albert E. Whale, CHS CISA CISSP Sr. Security, Ne

Re: [Dovecot] cannot use password-file for userdb

2008-10-27 Thread Albert E. Whale
Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Oct 26, 2008, at 11:28 PM, Albert E. Whale wrote: > >> Oct 26 17:26:54 ns6 dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: >> pid=5142 >> Oct 26 17:26:54 ns6 dovecot: auth(default): client in: >> AUTH^I1^IPLAIN^Iservice=pop3^Ilip=66.207.133.2

Re: [Dovecot] mail_location: mbox: mkdir failed

2008-10-27 Thread Albert E. Whale
Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Oct 27, 2008, at 2:15 PM, Albert E. Whale wrote: > >> Is there an automatic solution to this? >> >> Oct 27 08:00:48 192.168.50.5 dovecot: POP3(evelina2): mail_location: >> mbox: mkdir(/home/popuser_evelina2/mail) failed: Permis

[Dovecot] mail_location: mbox: mkdir failed

2008-10-27 Thread Albert E. Whale
dovecot: POP3(evelina2): mail_location: mbox: mkdir(/home/popuser_evelina2/mail) failed: Permission denied Oct 27 08:00:51 192.168.50.5 dovecot: Fatal: POP3(evelina2): Namespace initialization failed -- Albert E. Whale, CHS CISA CISSP Sr. Security, Network, Risk Assessment and Systems Consultant

Re: [Dovecot] cannot use password-file for userdb

2008-10-26 Thread Albert E. Whale
Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 10:01 -0400, Albert E. Whale wrote: > >> And unfortunately the dovecot daemon dies after successfully launching. >> > > What does it log? http://wiki.dovecot.org/Logging > > > Actually the userdb was wrong,

Re: [Dovecot] cannot use password-file for userdb

2008-10-26 Thread Albert E. Whale
Albert E. Whale wrote: > OK, I am attempting to use the userdb connection to facilitate per user > migration to Maildir format from mbox. Here's the first user: > > more /home/dovecot.passwd > health:$1$MCtvt/Tz$FmKqU/cbWlBhKnhc5W.Ko.:1152:1152:/home/health:userdb_mail=maild

[Dovecot] cannot use password-file for userdb

2008-10-26 Thread Albert E. Whale
up as: userdb passwd { } I changed this to: userdb passwd-file { args = /home/dovecot.conf } And unfortunately the dovecot daemon dies after successfully launching. Suggestions? -- Albert E. Whale, CHS CISA CISSP Sr. Security, Network, Risk Assessment and Systems Consu

Re: [Dovecot] Maildir connection issues

2008-10-24 Thread Albert E. Whale
Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Oct 24, 2008, at 8:40 PM, Albert E. Whale wrote: > >> I was under the impression that you could migrate individual mailboxes >> and set up the information via the dovecot.passwd file, i.e. >> >> health:$1$MCtvt/Tz$FmKqU/cbWlBhKnhc5W.Ko.:1152

Re: [Dovecot] Maildir connection issues

2008-10-24 Thread Albert E. Whale
mouss wrote: > Albert E. Whale a écrit : > >> I recently am attempting a mbox to Maildir conversion, initially for a >> single email address, and then for everyone. >> >> To further this diagnostic here is the dovecot -n: >> >> dovecot -n >>

[Dovecot] Maildir connection issues

2008-10-24 Thread Albert E. Whale
problem I am having is that the user health cannot get new email messages. Suggestions? -- Albert E. Whale, CHS CISA CISSP Sr. Security, Network, Risk Assessment and Systems Consultant ABS Computer Technology, Inc. <h

Re: [Dovecot] mbox to Maildir conversion

2008-10-23 Thread Albert E. Whale
Scott Silva wrote: > on 10-23-2008 1:35 PM Neil spake the following: > >> On 23 Oct 2008, at 16:17, Albert E. Whale wrote: >> >> >>> Neil wrote: >>> >>>> On 22 Oct 2008, at 23:35, Albert E. Whale wrote: >>>> >

Re: [Dovecot] mbox to Maildir conversion

2008-10-23 Thread Albert E. Whale
Neil wrote: > > On 23 Oct 2008, at 16:17, Albert E. Whale wrote: > >> Neil wrote: >>> >>> On 22 Oct 2008, at 23:35, Albert E. Whale wrote: >>> >>>> I've been running a mbox solution using UW's IMAP server. I've run it >>

Re: [Dovecot] mbox to Maildir conversion

2008-10-23 Thread Albert E. Whale
Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Wednesday, October 22 at 11:35 PM, quoth Albert E. Whale: >> I am currently testing a single user, and have successfully converted >> the mail messages from mbox to Maildir format, and now I am setting >> up the procmail tool to place the messages in

[Dovecot] mbox to Maildir conversion

2008-10-22 Thread Albert E. Whale
r, when I attempt to retrieve those messages, Dovecot does not find them. Why not? -- Albert E. Whale, CHS CISA CISSP Sr. Security, Network, Risk Assessment and Systems Consultant ABS Computer Technology, Inc. <http://www.AB

Re: [Dovecot] Can I translate the userid to match the UW-POP3 server?

2008-10-12 Thread Albert E. Whale
Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Oct 12, 2008, at 7:05 AM, Albert E. Whale wrote: > >> Now the Dovecot server is very flexible and currently I have not found >> how to translate the upper case characters to lowercase. >> >> What configuration setting will translate the use

[Dovecot] Can I translate the userid to match the UW-POP3 server?

2008-10-11 Thread Albert E. Whale
translate the userids to lowercase? -- Albert E. Whale, CHS CISA CISSP Sr. Security, Network, Risk Assessment and Systems Consultant ABS Computer Technology, Inc. <http://www.ABS-CompTech.com> - Email, Internet and Se

[Dovecot] File_lock_dotlock error

2008-10-05 Thread Albert E. Whale
Oct 5 22:51:59 ns6 dovecot: POP3(aewhale): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/spool/mail/aewhale: Permission denied Any suggestions? -- Albert E. Whale, CHS CISA CISSP Sr. Security, Network, Risk Assessment and Systems Consultant

[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.1.3 / 1.1.4 - not deleteing

2008-10-05 Thread Albert E. Whale
Not sure what happened here, but today, all of a sudden, pop3 emails are not being deleted. I was using the 1.1.3 version then upgraded to 1.1.4 now it no longer deletes emails. Suggestions? -- Albert E. Whale, CHS CISA CISSP Sr. Security, Network, Risk Assessment and Systems Consultant

[Dovecot] Migration Issues UW-POP3

2007-10-07 Thread Albert E. Whale
never see the POP3 or Login messages any more. Can someone tell me why? Is this not correctly working on my server yet? -- Albert E. Whale, CHS CISA CISSP Sr. Security, Network, Risk Assessment and Systems Consultant ABS C