Re: Which DKIM application for postfix 3.9.0

2024-04-24 Thread Jack Raats via dovecot
I'm using dkimproxy together with postfix/dovecot Gr., Jack Op 24-04-2024 om 11:03 schreef Jean-Daniel Dupas via dovecot: Talking about completeness, you can also use rspamd (https://www.rspamd.com <https://www.rspamd.com/>). While it it design to to more than DKIM, it can be use

Re: "Mailbox isn't a valid MBOX file" Error

2022-11-06 Thread Jack Raats
Hi Jos, You're using IMAP. Is in both mailclients the mailpath correctly configured? Gr., Jack Raats Op 06-11-2022 om 18:51 schreef Jos Chrispijn: -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: dovecot Namens gene heskett Verzonden: Sunday, 6 November 2022 12:42 Aan: dovecot@dovecot.org Onderwer

Re: multiple / backup sql servers for sql server access

2022-08-30 Thread Jack Snodgrass
string." is a bit lacking in info when you think about the possibility of having a different user/pass or dbname for the 2nd host instance. I am going to play around with this on my production box... but having a bit more info in the docs would be preferred. - jack On 8/30/22 07:

multiple / backup sql servers for sql server access

2022-08-29 Thread Jack Snodgrass
, a backup sql server will be queried? -- jack

Re: Should one prevent reconnection before expunge?

2022-08-22 Thread Jack Cecil
Christian Kivalo wrote: What keeps you from testing with a test account Hello. Even 10% of users having a problem that need to be hand held through it in some way would blow up my schedule for other projects. Aki Tuomi wrote: Running doveadm expunge while user is logged in, is safe. Tha

Re: Should one prevent reconnection before expunge?

2022-08-20 Thread Jack Cecil
On Fri, 12 Aug 2022, Jack Cecil wrote: could you help me understand the 'doveadm expunge' feature better? If a Maildir has 20 thousand messages and user is reading it over IMAP I have a suspicion it is not a good idea to be rewriting the dovecot index and cache at the same time.

Should one prevent reconnection before expunge?

2022-08-12 Thread Jack Cecil
Hello. From my understanding the 'autoexpunge' feature activates on user disconnect. But could you help me understand the 'doveadm expunge' feature better? If a Maildir has 20 thousand messages and user is reading it over IMAP I have a suspicion it is not a good idea to be rewriting the doveco

Re: under another kind of attack

2017-07-26 Thread jack
a smart one is zero. BTW: I don't think this is on-topic for Dovecot - we seem to be discussing mail-abuse abatement measures, which is a much more general topic. -- Jack.

Re: Dovecot user lookup from sendmail

2017-07-05 Thread Jack
On 05/07/2017 14:47, Garry Glendown wrote: Hi, Use exim instead of sendmail with an LDA or LMTP transport. Also, not available in any of the standard or legacy packages of SLES 12 ... I know why I stopped using SLES quite some time ago :( It does seem to have Postfix though. -- Jack.

PAM and YubiKeys

2014-07-29 Thread Jack
ull) [../pam_yubico.c:parse_cfg(779)] url=(null) [../pam_yubico.c:parse_cfg(780)] capath=(null) [../pam_yubico.c:parse_cfg(781)] token_id_length=12 [../pam_yubico.c:parse_cfg(782)] mode=client [../pam_yubico.c:parse_cfg(783)] chalresp_path=(null) [../pam_yubico.c:pam_sm_authent

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot "sleep" for short snapshots

2012-12-15 Thread Jack Bates
s completed (allowing fs-freeze to inform dovecot that the fs will be freezing/unfreezing). Jack

Re: [Dovecot] BUG: mishandling of username if it's a keyword?

2012-12-14 Thread Jack Bates
testing with both ldap w/ prefetch and static userdb. Jack On 12/14/2012 12:29 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: Yes, it's a bug. Most importantly: I don't think this is a security hole, except maybe in some very specific installations. It only affects usernames that are the same as one of t

Re: [Dovecot] BUG: mishandling of username if it's a keyword?

2012-12-14 Thread Jack Bates
;home" is being left out. This is definitely an issue with auth userdb. This was on 2.1.12. I upgraded. Jack On 12/14/2012 10:00 AM, Jack Bates wrote: Additional info by switching the home= and uid= settings in the config. userdb { args = home=/nfs/maildir/vmail/%u uid=vmail

Re: [Dovecot] BUG: mishandling of username if it's a keyword?

2012-12-14 Thread Jack Bates
and ~/ for mail root dir in: ~/Maildir Dec 14 15:56:20 test2 dovecot: pop3(home=/nfs/maildir/vmail/home): Error: Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information. Jack

[Dovecot] BUG: mishandling of username if it's a keyword?

2012-12-14 Thread Jack Bates
as well as production. version 2.1.10. When I have time, I'll dig into it myself after an upgrade to 2.1.12. Jack

Re: [Dovecot] Add S= to maildirfile

2012-10-18 Thread Jack Bates
maildir, but if necessary, you could also convert it to another format and then put it back to maildir. Jack

Re: [Dovecot] lmtp proxy logging

2012-10-17 Thread Jack Bates
nge it too much. You have already started xclient work in v2.2 which would necessitate a lot of changes to the lmtp/proxy code. I've actually debated backporting it to 2.1 for my own use. :) Jack On 10/15/2012 3:10 PM, Jack Bates wrote: On 10/15/2012 2:07 PM, Jack Bates wrote: On 10/

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot-core, dovecot-mysql for Debian squeeze

2012-10-17 Thread Jack Bates
: dovecot Version: 1:2.1.7-2~bpo60+1 Provides: imap-server Depends: dovecot-core (= 1:2.1.7-2~bpo60+1), libc6 (>= 2.4), ucf (>= 2.0020) That's from the Packages list http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports/dists/squeeze-backports/main/binary-i386/ Jack

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files

2012-10-17 Thread Jack Bates
6 ulimit -u 5120 In addition, I had to also up the max allowed processes in the dovecot config. 2.x and 1.x are different on this. http://wiki1.dovecot.org/LoginProcess <-1.x method Jack On 10/17/2012 6:16 PM, Fasil wrote: Thanks Frank. Followed the URL and could not find any luck. I

Re: [Dovecot] Per user quotas

2012-10-17 Thread Jack Bates
10, a userdb lookup doesn't use the userdb_ prefix. So you can try it with and without that prefix. userdb_ prefix on v2 is for cases where you do a prefetch on the passdb. I hope this helps. I've been using Passwd-file only for proxy settings and ldap for my backends to handle quota.

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot died

2012-10-17 Thread Jack Bates
time. Jack On 10/17/2012 1:26 AM, Hendrik wrote: Hi All I have been trying to get this website running for months now. I get this emails from cpanel and don't know how to fix it. If anyone can help me please contact me at pipe...@mweb.co.za. Kind regards Hendrik imap failed @ Fri

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot failed logins delay all logins

2012-10-17 Thread Jack Bates
other servers such as proxy and webmail as trusted. Jack

Re: [Dovecot] Per user quotas

2012-10-16 Thread Jack Bates
sswd file. Also, watch your quota_rule numbering. You have 2 rules with the same number (quota_rule2 for Trash and SPAM). In the passwd file, you are replacing the rule specified by number (no number technically being the first). Jack

Re: [Dovecot] Difference between Indexing and Rescan in FTS

2012-10-16 Thread Jack Bates
up. Except for corruption or index changes made outside of dovecot, the two sets of indexes should stay in sync. Jack

Re: [Dovecot] real_rip variable addition for dovecot 2.1.10

2012-10-16 Thread Jack Bates
Umm, yeah. Setting your rsyslog to pipe certain IP matches to another file really screws things up when you change the log to include that IP. Hours of work before I figured out that it was logging just fine but to another file. lol Jack On 10/16/2012 5:51 PM, Jack Bates wrote: Still have

Re: [Dovecot] real_rip variable addition for dovecot 2.1.10

2012-10-16 Thread Jack Bates
Still have some problems with the patch. will have to research it more. Worked fine on localhost, but isn't logging at all for foreign hosts in a production environment. Jack On 10/16/2012 3:43 PM, Jack Bates wrote: Timo, Please check the code. I didn't add it, but a real_li

[Dovecot] real_rip variable addition for dovecot 2.1.10

2012-10-16 Thread Jack Bates
p.patch dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.5, lip=::1, pip=::1, mpid=8665, secured Jack Bates

Re: [Dovecot] Problem with quota update in dovecot 1.2

2012-10-16 Thread Jack Bates
, but someone else may know more. I setup the Trash folder with a +100MB quota per the wiki so that it could handle deleting emails when quota was near full. Jack

Re: [Dovecot] Problem with quota update in dovecot 1.2

2012-10-16 Thread Jack Bates
sure the client isn't just copying it to the other folder. When you exit, you may be expunging inbox (deleting the marked message) and emptying trash (deleting the copied message). Jack

Re: [Dovecot] lmtp proxy logging

2012-10-15 Thread Jack Bates
On 10/15/2012 2:07 PM, Jack Bates wrote: On 10/12/2012 2:40 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: would probably complicate the code. I don't think this would be difficult to implement. Probably just a few lines of code. Yeah, could be useful. If there's no argument over the last emai

Re: [Dovecot] lmtp proxy logging

2012-10-15 Thread Jack Bates
cause I'm logging the proxy host itself, it can be IP or name depending on the configuration. If you like it, want minor changes, additional logging, let me know and I'll adjust the code. As is, this is a one liner. Jack Oct 12 19:03:45 compiler dovecot: lmtp(18568): Connect from

Re: [Dovecot] iterate_query does not use userdb - mail_location not found

2012-10-11 Thread Jack Bates
don't use passdb but userdb directly. The user_query should not have the userdb_ prefix. Also, according to the wiki, iterate_query returns username, not user. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/SQL Jack

Re: [Dovecot] Irrelevant information filling logs

2012-10-10 Thread Jack Bates
it is okay to accept emails again. It really lowers the bounces on the MTA servers. Jack

Re: [Dovecot] Fwd: Re: Dovecot doesnot disconnect at end of pop3 session

2012-10-10 Thread Jack Bates
On 10/10/2012 10:07 AM, Robert JR wrote: list command return msg number and size only. Thanks Below is the proper format you should see. The line with a period at the end is required to show that the list command has completed. If you do not get that, then the server hasn't successfully comp

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot doesnot disconnect at end of pop3 session

2012-10-10 Thread Jack Bates
. Also, does the list command end with a line that contains a period? You might want to include dovecot -n as well, which will show everyone what your mail storage type is and other relevant information. Jack

Re: [Dovecot] I need a quota expert

2012-10-10 Thread Jack Bates
point to that. Use the above wiki's examples for format. Jack On 10/10/2012 9:29 AM, Tibby wrote: I'm having problems with dovecot quota configuration. If I Include the driver mysql in dovecot-sql.conf I'm getting this error: dovecot: dict: Error in configuration file /etc/

[Dovecot] lmtp proxy logging

2012-10-10 Thread Jack Bates
the destination server chosen. If I recall correctly, the proxy code doesn't actually listen in on the conversation, so logging results would probably complicate the code. Jack

Re: [Dovecot] LDA vs LMTP index files

2012-10-03 Thread Jack Bates
-running process started by Dovecot's master process." I think they are trying to reduce duplication of information. Jack

Re: [Dovecot] LDA vs LMTP index files

2012-10-03 Thread Jack Bates
Oct 2 18:58 dovecot-uidvalidity -r--r--r--. 1 vmail vmail 0 Oct 2 18:58 dovecot-uidvalidity.506b393c -rw---. 1 vmail vmail28 Oct 2 20:21 maildirsize Jack

Re: [Dovecot] possible nfs issue

2012-10-02 Thread Jack Bates
-nfs-files-from-being-created Jack

Re: [Dovecot] BUG to compile dovecot 2.1.10 on Debian 4.0, using gcc 4.1.2

2012-10-01 Thread Jack Bates
It looks like this might be a bug in glibc 2.3.3 http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1392 Jack On 10/1/2012 2:20 PM, Fabio Depin wrote: Hello, Today I needed to compile dovecot 2.1.10 on Debian 4.0, using gcc 4.1.2. When running 'make' getting the follo

Re: [Dovecot] Logging IP address for failed login

2012-10-01 Thread Jack Bates
?) 2.1.9/2.1.10 which I packaged shows similar. Since I connected localhost, the IP is IPv6, of course. Jack

Re: [Dovecot] Problem with process_limit

2012-10-01 Thread Jack Bates
lowed by dovecot to 4096 and increases the number of processes per user to 5120. This is a proxy server, so I needed to support much larger numbers. than a silly 1024. Jack

Re: [Dovecot] Log NAT IP address?

2012-10-01 Thread Jack Bates
On 10/1/2012 2:58 AM, David Ledger wrote: At 09:33 -0500 30/9/12, Jack Bates wrote: On 9/30/2012 8:02 AM, Charles Marcus wrote: Hi Timo/everyone, Currently we are logging the remote IP, but is there a way to show the IP address that the NAT connection is coming from? The reason I ask is

Re: [Dovecot] Log NAT IP address?

2012-09-30 Thread Jack Bates
coming from. You could bind 2 internal IP Addresses to the server and have each NAT translation go to a different internal IP. Jack

Re: [Dovecot] LTMP Proxy failure fix/hack

2012-09-28 Thread Jack Bates
On 9/28/2012 3:12 PM, Jack Bates wrote: Code needs to be written to handle the special case of us not having any proxy callbacks as they are all bad. Timo, please check and approve. This was diff'd on 2.1.10 on my test server (2.1.9 and 2.1.10 at least had this callback

Re: [Dovecot] LTMP Proxy fails when backend server connection refused

2012-09-28 Thread Jack Bates
On 9/28/2012 12:44 PM, Jack Bates wrote: On 9/28/2012 11:37 AM, Jack Bates wrote: On 9/27/2012 3:30 PM, Jack Bates wrote: Version: 2.1.9 Connecting directly to the proxy server on the LMTP port, issue lhlo, mail from, rcpt to, data. After the . closing of data, it just hangs there. The logs

Re: [Dovecot] LTMP Proxy fails when backend server connection refused

2012-09-28 Thread Jack Bates
On 9/28/2012 11:37 AM, Jack Bates wrote: On 9/27/2012 3:30 PM, Jack Bates wrote: Version: 2.1.9 Connecting directly to the proxy server on the LMTP port, issue lhlo, mail from, rcpt to, data. After the . closing of data, it just hangs there. The logs on the proxy server show: I am not sure

Re: [Dovecot] LTMP Proxy fails when backend server connection refused

2012-09-28 Thread Jack Bates
On 9/27/2012 3:30 PM, Jack Bates wrote: Version: 2.1.9 Connecting directly to the proxy server on the LMTP port, issue lhlo, mail from, rcpt to, data. After the . closing of data, it just hangs there. The logs on the proxy server show: Looking at dovecot's proxy code. Cal

[Dovecot] LTMP Proxy fails when backend server connection refused

2012-09-27 Thread Jack Bates
proxy_timeout=120 } } Jack

[Dovecot] Temporary Failure that's Permanent!

2011-10-25 Thread Jack Fredrikson
Hi; I continue to be plagued with this error: Oct 25 10:49:18 myserver postfix/pipe[3712]: 0423257901AB: to=, relay=dovecot, delay=109318, delays=109318/0.14/0/0.1, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure It's been a week that I've been working day and night to get this fixed. I forgot

Re: [Dovecot] Marathon Day 6 of First Install: MySQL Connection Problem

2011-10-25 Thread Jack Fredrikson
From: Jack Fredrikson To: Jack Fredrikson ; Giles Coochey Cc: "simon.brere...@buongiorno.com" ; Dovecot Mailing List Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 11:01 AM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Marathon Day 6 of First Install: MySQL Connection Problem I have

Re: [Dovecot] Marathon Day 6 of First Install: MySQL Connection Problem

2011-10-25 Thread Jack Fredrikson
From: Giles Coochey To: Jack Fredrikson Cc: "simon.brere...@buongiorno.com" ; Dovecot Mailing List Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 10:02 AM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Marathon Day 6 of First Install: MySQL Connection Problem I just discovered this: [root@myserver postfix]# ls -al /u

Re: [Dovecot] Marathon Day 6 of First Install: MySQL Connection Problem

2011-10-25 Thread Jack Fredrikson
From: Giles Coochey To: Jack Fredrikson Cc: "simon.brere...@buongiorno.com" ; Dovecot Mailing List Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 10:02 AM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Marathon Day 6 of First Install: MySQL Connection Problem > On my Centos 5.x: &

Re: [Dovecot] Marathon Day 6 of First Install: MySQL Connection Problem

2011-10-25 Thread Jack Fredrikson
discovered it in /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver which, of course, is a binary. How did it get there? Certainly not when I did my ./configure make make install dance with dovecot's src distro. How did it get there?? How do I change it??` TIA, Jack

Re: [Dovecot] Marathon Day 6 of First Install: MySQL Connection Problem

2011-10-25 Thread Jack Fredrikson
From: Jack Fredrikson To: "simon.brere...@buongiorno.com" ; Dovecot Mailing List Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 6:47 AM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Marathon Day 6 of First Install: MySQL Connection Problem Or, conversely, how do I create this file:

Re: [Dovecot] Marathon Day 6 of First Install: MySQL Connection Problem

2011-10-25 Thread Jack Fredrikson
vecot/deliver-ldaTIA, Jack

Re: [Dovecot] Marathon Day 6 of First Install: MySQL Connection Problem

2011-10-24 Thread Jack Fredrikson
path? It certainly isn't like that > on my machine. Well, I changed it to just "sendmail" (since I had that file, too) but with the same result. I remember creating that file earlier but I don't remember where and searching around my system I can't xargs grep it. What do you recommend? TIA, Jack

Re: [Dovecot] Marathon Day 6 of First Install: MySQL Connection Problem

2011-10-24 Thread Jack Fredrikson
From: Tom Hendrikx To: dovecot@dovecot.org Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 6:00 PM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Marathon Day 6 of First Install: MySQL Connection Problem > Adding dovecot to the postfix group would be considered a security issue > by many. Don't so this

Re: [Dovecot] Marathon Day 6 of First Install: MySQL Connection Problem

2011-10-24 Thread Jack Fredrikson
:45 . drwxr-xr-x 26 root  root 4096 Oct 23 08:35 .. /usr/sbin/usermod -a -G mail,postfix dovecot And I'm still getting the same error: dovecot: auth-worker: Error: mysql(localhost): Connect failed to database (postfix): Access denied for user 'dovecot'@'localhost' (using password: YES) TIA, Jack

Re: [Dovecot] Marathon Day 6 of First Install: MySQL Connection Problem

2011-10-24 Thread Jack Fredrikson
From: Tom Hendrikx To: dovecot@dovecot.org Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 3:24 PM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Marathon Day 6 of First Install: MySQL Connection Problem First up, thanks for the links, Simon, but they didn't help :( I still need to chmod 666 /usr/local

[Dovecot] Marathon Day 6 of First Install: MySQL Connection Problem

2011-10-24 Thread Jack Fredrikson
-userdb, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0755) Oct 24 11:31:11 lda: Fatal: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. Every time I go to chmod 666 on that file, restarting dovecot wipes those permissions. How fix? Even when I fix that, I still get the "temporary failure". Please advise. TIA, Jack

Re: [Dovecot] Temporary Failures

2011-10-23 Thread Jack Fredrikson
This is *only* a PS to my last response (e.g., please be sure to read last response). Rob0 stated I should be using dovecot-lda. After running in circles it appears that dovecot-lda is incorporated into dovecot proper any more and I've duly incorporated it into my dovecot.conf file. Jack

Re: [Dovecot] Temporary Failures

2011-10-23 Thread Jack Fredrikson
From: Simon Brereton To: Jack Fredrikson Cc: "dovecot@dovecot.org" Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 2:41 PM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Temporary Failures First up, apologies for double-posting. I actually posted this last one yesterday and the othe

[Dovecot] Temporary Failures

2011-10-22 Thread Jack Fredrikson
veconf -n > dovcot-new.conf command and the same conf file I've been using pops up. Can someone post some code that reflects how the new conf file should look? TIA, Jack

[Dovecot] First Installation, Problems...

2011-10-22 Thread Jack Fredrikson
Hi; [root@example jack]# /usr/local/sbin/dovecot --version 2.0.15 [root@example jack]# /usr/local/bin/doveconf -n # 2.0.15: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf doveconf: Warning: NOTE: You can get a new clean config file with: doveconf -n > dovecot-new.conf doveconf: Warning: Obsolete sett

Re: [Dovecot] Don't Know Where Emails Are Or What's Happening

2011-10-21 Thread Jack Fredrikson
Wait a minute! PostfixAdmin has no problems with MySQL. They have a setup page that verifies the MySQL connection among other things, and everything checks out perfectly well. At any rate, Simon, am now communicating with the Postfix list as well ;) Thanks, Jack

Re: [Dovecot] Don't Know Where Emails Are Or What's Happening

2011-10-21 Thread Jack Fredrikson
Okay - fairly common setup.  I don't use postfix-admin, but if that's > what created your mysql tables that could also be a starting point to > look for the table lock errors. Ok. Thanks, Jack

Re: [Dovecot] Don't Know Where Emails Are Or What's Happening

2011-10-20 Thread Jack Fredrikson
mpact on what the > solution is. I have clients with their various domains hosted on my server to whom I need to serve email. There will only be me on a slice of one machine interfacing with dovecot/postfix. I have integrated/am integrating Amavis, ClamAV, Spamassassin, PostfixAdmin and SquirrelMail. Thanks, Jack

[Dovecot] Don't Know Where Emails Are Or What's Happening

2011-10-20 Thread Jack Fredrikson
ponds to your MySQL server version f or the right syntax to use near '??awakelunch.info??? AND active = 1' at line 1 I reckon the failing of mysql inquiries just has to do with hackers trying to hack me. The TLS problem isn't mission-critical since it's just getting disabled.  [ro

Re: [Dovecot] imap error

2009-08-01 Thread Jack Raats
Thanks for your squick respond. The error must be in squirrelmail. Thanks again Jack - Original Message - From: "Timo Sirainen" To: "Jack Raats" Cc: "Dovecot Mailing List" Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 7:58 AM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] imap error On

Re: [Dovecot] imap error

2009-08-01 Thread Jack Raats
inen" To: "Jack Raats" Cc: "Dovecot Mailing List" Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 7:58 AM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] imap error On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 07:56 +0200, Jack Raats wrote: This morning I tried to read my mail using squirrelmail. I cann't connect. I'll g

[Dovecot] imap error

2009-08-01 Thread Jack Raats
This morning I tried to read my mail using squirrelmail. I cann't connect. I'll get the following error: Aug 2 07:51:44 hera dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Aug 2 07:51:44 hera dovecot: IMAP(jack): Disconnected: Logged out by

Re: [Dovecot] Using LDAP for Dovecot extra/regular fields

2009-03-13 Thread Jack Stewart
with a NULL. A standard LDAP objectclass does not exist - since there are so make possible configurations, it is unlikely that you could make everyone happy. ---Jack Jack Stewart wrote: Hi, We're moving to a dovecot proxy / server configuration in order to make sure that a users go

[Dovecot] Using LDAP for Dovecot extra/regular fields

2009-03-08 Thread Jack Stewart
r host, boolean for proxy/proxy_maybe etc). Any interest in registering an LDAP object class for dovecot? ---Jack

Re: [Dovecot] great disappearing email mystery

2009-02-11 Thread Jack Stewart
dhottin...@harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote: Quoting Jack Stewart : dhottin...@harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote: On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 17:27 -0500, dhottin...@harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote: Have there been any issues with dovecot and using outlook express (imap) as an email client? I have had

Re: [Dovecot] great disappearing email mystery

2009-02-11 Thread Jack Stewart
le it lasted. The key to resolving the issue had to do with upgrades to the dovecot version - we currently just made the jump to 1.1.11 and it seems to be working well. ---Jack

Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.11 released

2009-02-06 Thread Jack Bailey
01-90007/ch05s03.html for further information. Jack

Re: [Dovecot] NFS - inotify vs kqueue

2009-02-05 Thread Jack Stewart
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 13:08 -0800, Jack Stewart wrote: Anyone have pro/con experience with dovecot on the inotify/kqueue question when using NFS storage? Inotify is for Linux, kqueue is for BSDs. Right? So I'd think there are a lot of other issues if you're

[Dovecot] NFS - inotify vs kqueue

2009-02-05 Thread Jack Stewart
orage? I realize that kqueue is probably a bit slower and causes some delay with IDLE. Also, it may not really make any difference which is why I ask the question. ---Jack

Re: [Dovecot] Error: Maximum number of mail processes exceeded (see max_mail_processes setting)

2009-02-05 Thread Jack Stewart
f settings needed to Oracle/MySQL/Apache/etc servers. Tuning isn't limited to just ulimit. I know of some useful RHE settings, but not all. ---Jack

Re: [Dovecot] Error: Maximum number of mail processes exceeded (see max_mail_processes setting)

2009-02-05 Thread Jack Stewart
well. ---Jack

[Dovecot] Testing Suite (was [Dovecot-news] v1.1.10 released)

2009-01-26 Thread Jack Stewart
are upgrading precisely because of race conditions. My latest joy, two stratum one clocks that are 1s apart. Our server environment is pretty specific but there is a lot of diversity in our user base. The outliers are good test cases. ---Jack

Re: [Dovecot] DC testing observation and a question

2009-01-09 Thread Jack Stewart
Hope this helps. ---Jack

Re: [Dovecot] Sudden, large numbers of "Timeout while waiting for lock for transaction log ..."

2009-01-09 Thread Jack Stewart
Jack Stewart wrote: Yes, the indexes are also on NFS. The locking is fcntl() - the default. I'm guessing that's the problem. NFS locking seems to break/hang randomly sometimes. Can you somehow restart the NFS server locking daemon? I changed the /etc/hosts.allow s

Re: [Dovecot] Sudden, large numbers of "Timeout while waiting for lock for transaction log ..."

2009-01-07 Thread Jack Stewart
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 08:32 -0800, Jack Stewart wrote: Timo Sirainen wrote: On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 23:11 -0800, Jack Stewart wrote: an 6 01:21:02 earth-griffen dovecot: IMAP(zabala): Timeout while waiting for lock for transaction log file /var/spool/dovecot/indexes/z

Re: [Dovecot] Sudden, large numbers of "Timeout while waiting for lock for transaction log ..."

2009-01-07 Thread Jack Stewart
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 23:11 -0800, Jack Stewart wrote: an 6 01:21:02 earth-griffen dovecot: IMAP(zabala): Timeout while waiting for lock for transaction log file /var/spool/dovecot/indexes/z/zabala/.INBOX/dovecot.index.log This is the main problem. So indexes are also

[Dovecot] Sudden, large numbers of "Timeout while waiting for lock for transaction log ..."

2009-01-06 Thread Jack Stewart
n 6 01:21:04 fire-griffen dovecot: IMAP(sukwon): Timeout while waiting for lock for transaction log file /var/spool/dovecot/indexes/s/sukwon/.Trash/dovecot.index.log -- Jack Stewart Academic Computing Services, IMSS, California Institute of Technology jstew...@caltech.edu 626-395-4690 office

Re: [Dovecot] cannot delete emails in inbox

2009-01-04 Thread Jack Stewart
lease advice. Thank you -- Jane What is the mtime of your dovecot.index.cache file? Is it significantly older than the last new message? ---Jack

Re: [Dovecot] NFS, IDLE, and index locking

2008-12-31 Thread Jack Stewart
.. On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:11:08 +0200 "Timo Sirainen" wrote: >On Dec 31, 2008, at 4:24 AM, Jack Stewart wrote: > >> The attribute cache is the default (60 seconds) which works well >> enough in a polling setting but may be a problem with IDLE (30 >> second c

[Dovecot] NFS, IDLE, and index locking

2008-12-30 Thread Jack Stewart
he default). Do you find 180-300 seconds more reasonable? ---Jack To give some context, we have a handful of users with intermittent caching locking where the dovecot.index.cache file would simply not update. One of our internal people managed to get this problem when he was using pine

Re: [Dovecot] MySQL as a storage only.?

2008-12-23 Thread Jack Stewart
/configuration does not sound simple from the dba's I've talked to, although RACK looks decent. MySQL does work well for index problems (i.e. searches) where the index can be reconstructed if their is a failure and the searching process doesn't seize in a failure. Just my opinion and warning. ---Jack

Re: [Dovecot] Is there a straight forward way to associate login with imap process

2008-12-22 Thread Jack Stewart
Jack Stewart wrote: Timo Sirainen wrote: On Dec 22, 2008, at 9:01 PM, Jack Stewart wrote: Hi, What kind of a locking issue? Hangs? The clients are hanging. There are at least a couple of different types of locking issues. In both cases the dovecot.cache.index file does not

Re: [Dovecot] Is there a straight forward way to associate login with imap process

2008-12-22 Thread Jack Stewart
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Dec 22, 2008, at 9:01 PM, Jack Stewart wrote: Hi, Is there a way to associate a user's the login (imap-login) process with the user's 'imap [' process? We are trying to lock down an issue to make sure we full understand it. /proc and shared m

[Dovecot] Is there a straight forward way to associate login with imap process

2008-12-22 Thread Jack Stewart
iguration of the multiple simultaneous persistent clients that user is using, etc. lslk, alert logs, strace, testing the most recent 1.1.X version, and file mtime is giving us some information but we want to make everything is covered. Many thanks in advance. ---Jack -- Jack Stewart California Inst

Re: [Dovecot] Errors on high load

2008-09-16 Thread Jack Stewart
or. These settings also got rid of my error messages under low load. It is also probably worth while to shut the system down and run memory test (i.e. memtest86+ - or if it is under maintenance just get it replaced) ---Jack Allan Cassaro wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Charles M

Re: [Dovecot] NFS performance and 1.1.3 - what can you (unofficially) get away with?

2008-09-10 Thread Jack Stewart
st rolling one server and just rolling webmail for now - we'll see where it goes. ---Jack Timo Sirainen wrote: On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 12:20 -0700, Jack Stewart wrote: The performance hit was bad. When I tried "mail_nfs_index = yes" the load went from 0.5 to 120+ (on each of three

Re: [Dovecot] NFS performance and 1.1.3 - what can you (unofficially) get away with?

2008-09-10 Thread Jack Stewart
running with local index.cache files for each servers (using sticky connections) and that seems to work fine. ---Jack Timo Sirainen wrote: On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 10:58 -0700, Jack Stewart wrote: The question is has anyone, with Maildir and the INDEX= on NFS (i.e. dovecot.index and dovecot.index.cache

[Dovecot] NFS performance and 1.1.3 - what can you (unofficially) get away with?

2008-09-10 Thread Jack Stewart
ts NFS settings. Yet this is a place with some pretty nutty users. (i.e. 2+GB inboxes, 100K messages, one/minute connections, ...) ---Jack P.S. As a total aside people migrating from 1.0.X to 1.1.3 may wish to have to use a different INDEX directory in 1.1.3 than the one you used in 1.0.7.

Re: [Dovecot] Thunderbird, subscriptions, and upgrade to 1.1.3

2008-09-08 Thread Jack Stewart
uture with confused clients/users. ---Jack Timo Sirainen wrote: On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 11:49 -0700, Jack Stewart wrote: I've upgraded from 1.0.7 to 1.1.3. When I did this, my Thunderbird lost its brain and did not show some subscribed folders. squirrelmail also seemed to have issues. App

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