Re: [Dovecot] Ok, I've given up

2010-06-17 Thread Chuck McManis
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 2010-06-17 11:52 AM, Chuck McManis wrote: > > but I've been evaluating a ZFS based file server as well to see if it > > can get the same level of reliability. > > Care to share which one? Or just a FreeBSD ba

Re: [Dovecot] Ok, I've given up

2010-06-17 Thread Chuck McManis
Thanks for the response, some snippage to cut down on list traffic ... On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 7:14 AM, /dev/rob0 wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:20 AM, /dev/rob0 wrote: > > > 2a. mutt and alpine are both Unix console-based MUAs which > > > understand maildir *and* IMAP. I'm

Re: [Dovecot] Ok, I've given up

2010-06-17 Thread Chuck McManis
Thanks Timo. --Chuck On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:34 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 17.6.2010, at 6.59, Chuck McManis wrote: > > > First, part of this effort was to move off of an APOP infrastructure into > > something more secure against password eavesdropping. To that end I

Re: [Dovecot] Ok, I've given up

2010-06-17 Thread Chuck McManis
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:20 AM, /dev/rob0 wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:59:55PM -0700, Chuck McManis wrote: > > In the interest of moving forward on this project > > I looked back at your other thread and at this one, and, hmmm. I > invite you to join us in the new

[Dovecot] Ok with a bit more wiki reading ...

2010-06-16 Thread Chuck McManis
So if I want to run dovecot from tcpserver it seems like I can simply run `pop3-login --ssl` from tcpserver (its sort of like running it from inetd) and it says it will 'talk to dovecot'. Can I disable all listeners in dovecot then? Will is still talk to it? Trying some experiments now ... --Chuck

[Dovecot] Ok, I've given up

2010-06-16 Thread Chuck McManis
Sigh, In the interest of moving forward on this project I've given up trying to get Dovecot to support mailboxes, rather I've tweaked around in qmail and had it deliver into a mail directory on a disk, that isn't NFS mounted. That got me past the various locking complaints and "operation not suppo

Re: [Dovecot] New admin, not much success

2010-06-16 Thread Chuck McManis
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:19 AM, William Blunn > wrote: > [snip]... . With Maildir, everything works out-of-the-box with no > configuration without breaking a sweat; mailbox corruption is simply > designed-out. > > Bill > I may end up and go back to a maildir implementation, that would at least

Re: [Dovecot] New admin, not much success

2010-06-16 Thread Chuck McManis
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 08:46 -0700, Chuck McManis wrote: > > (random 2.0 bug report, unless you set info_log_path > > in conf.d/10-logging the additonal information doesn't come out) > > With or without setting l

Re: [Dovecot] New admin, not much success

2010-06-16 Thread Chuck McManis
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:44 AM, William Blunn > wrote: > Timo Sirainen wrote: > >> On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 08:28 -0700, Chuck McManis wrote: >> >> >>> Jun 16 08:22:07 eeebox dovecot: pop3(cmcmanis): Error: user cmcmanis: >>> Initialization failed:

Re: [Dovecot] New admin, not much success

2010-06-16 Thread Chuck McManis
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 08:28 -0700, Chuck McManis wrote: > > > > Jun 16 08:22:07 eeebox dovecot: pop3(cmcmanis): Error: user cmcmanis: > > Initialization failed: Initializing mail storage from mail_location > settin

Re: [Dovecot] New admin, not much success

2010-06-16 Thread Chuck McManis
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 6:35 AM, Pascal Volk < user+dove...@localhost.localdomain.org > wrote: > On 06/16/2010 07:26 AM Chuck McManis wrote: > > … > > I've got qmail delivering into a file named 'Mailbox&

[Dovecot] New admin, not much success

2010-06-15 Thread Chuck McManis
Hello, I'm trying to set up something fairly simple (famous last words) using Dovecot. I have a very small setup (just a dozen users) I'm using qmail as my MTA. I'm running FreeBSD 8.0 I've got qmail delivering into a file named 'Mailbox' in user's home directories. I prefer not to use Maildi