Re: rsync sdbox, no new mails?

2019-04-15 Thread Jakob Curdes via dovecot
Forget it,  a) it was maildir (set via a SQL config that overrides the setting in 10-mail.conf) b) the client did not display the new messages. All fine. JC

rsync sdbox, no new mails?

2019-04-15 Thread Jakob Curdes via dovecot
Hello, I had to restore a mailserver from a backup to replace a system with problems that is still live. I did a 1:1 restore as far as possible from a backup, then rsynced the /var/vmail/ directory, where we have all the mailboxes, in sdbox format. So both directories should be the same. After

Re: Sharing Mailbox between users using IMAP

2018-06-29 Thread Jakob Curdes
Sharing IMAP accounts poses no technical problems, we do that all the time. It might pose GDPR / confidentiality problems however, depending on the type of mails in the account and on the legal situation. JC Am 29.06.2018 um 09:53 schrieb Luca Bertoncello: Zitat von Remko Lodder : Hi Remko,

Re: Outlook 2016 & IMAP Trouble with dovecot

2018-03-06 Thread Jakob Curdes
I would see it a bit more general: Outlook is mostly useless as email client in general (not looking at the groupware functionality). Even with Exchange or other server types, many simple things do not work reliably and never get fixed. And the simplest things are impossible, e.g. displaying

Re: Outlook 2016 & IMAP Trouble with dovecot

2018-03-06 Thread Jakob Curdes
Thanks, that means that outlook is useless as an Imap client then . This is the whole idea behind imap, to be able to do work while off-line and sync changes when on-line or I get it wrong ? thanks anyway I would see it a bit more general: Outlook is mostly useless as email client in

Re: Email Push to Iphone

2017-03-30 Thread Jakob Curdes
Am 29.03.2017 um 06:24 schrieb m...@caloro.ch: Hello Please exist in Dovecot 2.2.13 the E-Mail Push function? So that the Email on me Iphone are available at this moment that will be transfered, I see or found any other 3part software "Z-push", but it's this function are not

Re: Upgrade from 2.0. to 2.2

2017-03-06 Thread Jakob Curdes
Alexander Dalloz: Am 05.03.2017 um 22:49 schrieb Peter: On 04/03/17 00:22, Jakob Curdes wrote: Hello, we have a centos 6 server running dovecot 2.0 provided with the OS, currently 2.0.9. We would like to upgrade to the 2.2.19 package provided by the mailserver.guru repo. Why upgrade to such an old

Re: Upgrade from 2.0. to 2.2

2017-03-06 Thread Jakob Curdes
Am 03.03.2017 um 12:45 schrieb Aki Tuomi: On 2017-03-03 13:22, Jakob Curdes wrote: Hello, we have a centos 6 server running dovecot 2.0 provided with the OS, currently 2.0.9. We would like to upgrade to the 2.2.19 package provided by the mailserver.guru repo. I read the upgrading docs

Re: Upgrade from 2.0. to 2.2

2017-03-06 Thread Jakob Curdes
Ah, still better. I just want to upgrade to a package that is available from maintained repos, so that is good news for me. Thx, Jakob Am 05.03.2017 um 22:52 schrieb Alexander Dalloz: Am 05.03.2017 um 22:49 schrieb Peter: On 04/03/17 00:22, Jakob Curdes wrote: Hello, we have a centos 6

Upgrade from 2.0. to 2.2

2017-03-03 Thread Jakob Curdes
Hello, we have a centos 6 server running dovecot 2.0 provided with the OS, currently 2.0.9. We would like to upgrade to the 2.2.19 package provided by the mailserver.guru repo. I read the upgrading docs for 2.1 and 2.2 and found the following issues: 2.0 - 2.1: - define namespace inbox or

Question RE listescape and separators

2015-07-30 Thread Jakob Curdes
possible? Best regards, Jakob Curdes

Re: Outlook 2013/2010 nightmare

2015-03-09 Thread Jakob Curdes
Just a basic comment: Outlook is well known for its bad IMAP support. It is really not a recommendable IMAP client. My experience is similar to yours: it may work, then it may not work, while other clients can use the same account without problems. Essentially I think Outlook always beleives

Re: [Dovecot] Heartbleed openssl vulnerability?

2014-04-08 Thread Jakob Curdes
Am 08.04.2014 19:00, schrieb John Rowe: Do we know if dovecot is vulnerable to the heartbleed SSL problem? I'm running dovecot-2.0.9 and openssl-1.01, the latter being intrinsically vulnerable. An on-line tool says that my machine is not affected on port 993 but it would be nice to know for

Re: [Dovecot] Heartbleed openssl vulnerability?

2014-04-08 Thread Jakob Curdes
Be aware that your private key might already have leaked without any notice. So your best bet is to withdraw your certificates and renew all keys/certificates on the affected machines. Yes, I suppose by now everybody has read the general hints on heartbleed.com ; it might even be that

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] MS Exchange Alternative?

2012-12-04 Thread Jakob Curdes
Horde groupware? www.Horde.org I tried horde but for real Outlook connectivity, which is done via ActiveSync, my experience ist not so good; then and now I got contacts that kepte replicating themselves and dates that would not show up in Outlook or the Web GUI. If you use it with

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] MS Exchange Alternative?

2012-12-04 Thread Jakob Curdes
Am 04.12.2012 19:07, schrieb Bob Miller: for outlook you need a 20 euro plugin to support caldav and outlook is a terrible imap client, thunderbird doesn't support the shared address book thing yet, Outlook is a terrible imap client until including office 2007, with 2010 things have changed a

Re: [Dovecot] Prevent Download messages from server

2012-09-20 Thread Jakob Curdes
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Re: [Dovecot] Howto add another disk storage

2012-07-09 Thread Jakob Curdes
Am 09.07.2012 22:42, schrieb s...@privat.dk: Moi. Hi there. Wouldn't it be possible to either stop this madness of silly people trying to teach other maillist users this storage nonsense ? (Religion) or to tell how to unsubscribe asap ? My inbox is filling up with this to me, and maybe other

Re: [Dovecot] Mail files?

2011-09-05 Thread Jakob Curdes
Am 05.09.2011 19:52, schrieb Knute Johnson: I have a Ubuntu server running dovecot 1.2.9 with mail in mbox. There are mail files in /var/mail/user and there are mail files in /home/user/mail that correspond to the IMAP folders. In the config file details below it shows mail_location:

Re: [Dovecot] Mail files?

2011-09-05 Thread Jakob Curdes
this in the respective config file with MAILDIR=$HOME Attention: Maildir here just is the mailbox location, procmail assumes the mbox format by default. If you actually use the Maildir _/format/_, you must specify MAILDIR=$HOME/ HTH, Jakob Curdes

Re: [Dovecot] Mail history function?

2010-11-17 Thread Jakob Curdes
to log into an SQL database. Then you can pull everything you want from there The IMAP server is the wrong place for that as you would exclude mails that get discarded by the MTA, e.g. due to ingress or spam detection rules or because of a misconfigured alias. HTH, Jakob Curdes

Re: [Dovecot] Mail history function?

2010-11-17 Thread Jakob Curdes
Please keep replies to the list so that others can participate. I sugest the notify, because the admin can know if a user open a email, copy to another folder, delete the emailetc. but using the MTA it can be a solution too. At least in Germany, doing this is quite risky as this gives

[Dovecot] Solved with 2.0.6 ! Re: 2.0.2 : crashes with LDA

2010-10-26 Thread Jakob Curdes
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Re: [Dovecot] POP3 Slow

2010-10-09 Thread Jakob Curdes
I did run a protocol analyzer trace on the TCP transaction, when the POP3 clients were connecting and discovered a lot of Re-Transmissions and Duplicate ACK packets. Then the first thing I would do is check the network connection. Maybe you have a wrecked network card, switch port ot et

Re: [Dovecot] migrate machines and upgrade

2010-10-08 Thread Jakob Curdes
series is a huge improvement, but as always with new software, with the first versions a bunch of problems is being uncovered. As for the migration, have you had a look at imapsync? With that tool I migrated lots of mailboxes user-wise from one imap server to another. HTH, Jakob Curdes

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot v0.99.13-3 upgrade to 1.0.15-2 ??

2010-10-01 Thread Jakob Curdes
I'm wondering now is it even possible to use the same mbox's from 0.99.13-3 with version 1.0.15-2? Why move from the great-great-granddaddy version to the granddaddy version? Do yourself a favor and install the latest stable (currently 2.0.4)... All modern distros have repositories you can

Re: [Dovecot] tags disappear in Thunderbird (OT: Maildir preference)

2010-09-21 Thread Jakob Curdes
that nothing is missing. That said, we use maildir and mbox formats for several hundred mailaccounts in different setups and never had a real corruption problem, besides one issue with badly formatted From: lines several years ago. Jakob Curdes

Re: [Dovecot] tags disappear in Thunderbird (OT: Maildir preference)

2010-09-21 Thread Jakob Curdes
b) file is corrupt (altered by two processes, bad sector, filesystem corruption on file level) - the mbox file can be repaired easily, if you want, by hand. With mbox data is moved in-place within the file while doing expunge. A crash in the middle of expunge corrupts the mbox file,

Re: [Dovecot] 2.0.2 : crashes with LDA

2010-09-19 Thread Jakob Curdes
Strange, because it is doveconf that is crashing. You mean doveconf -c /etc/dovecot2.conf doesn't crash? No, it parses the config without errrors as far as I can see (below). It seems only to crash when called in the contect of the LDA - perhaps a permission problem that is not handled

[Dovecot] 2.0.2 : crashes with LDA

2010-09-17 Thread Jakob Curdes
call of doveconf yields no problems. Any hints? Best regards, Jakob Curdes

Re: [Dovecot] EVERYONE USING DOVECOT PLEASE SIGN:

2010-08-18 Thread Jakob Curdes
Thanks Timo !! cheers jakob curdes

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

2010-06-17 Thread Jakob Curdes
at the SMTP level on the basis of rules like deny systems that do not know their hostnames or deny systems that cannot do a proper SMTP greeting. Cheers, Jakob Curdes

Re: [Dovecot] failed to store into mailbox 'INBOX': Not enough disk space. with large mail

2010-06-10 Thread Jakob Curdes
Am 10.06.2010 17:19, schrieb Charles Marcus: On 2010-06-10 3:31 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: BTW, anyone who has a 44MB INBOX should be slapped repeatedly about the cranium and then educated about POP and IMAP, and how each should be used. So, Stan, how much will you charge to come do

Re: [Dovecot] Any Knowledge, pls: Iphone and Dovecot - 2-way sync

2010-05-05 Thread Jakob Curdes
Lucio Godoy wrote: === The Home CCTV Security System made easy! http://www.kaduco.com/our-list-products-services/cctv-security-camera-systems-digital-wired-wireless-home-commercial-uk.html

Re: [Dovecot] Mbox limit the size

2010-04-01 Thread Jakob Curdes
Karthick G schrieb: Hi, I want to set size limit for the inbox of all users in my mail server. Please send me the steps to be followed or how to configure dovecot to enable limiting the inbox size. Thanks in advance. see http://wiki.dovecot.org/Quota HTH, Jakob Curdes

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot truncating Inboxes?

2009-12-14 Thread Jakob Curdes
one which you stumbled on. I suggest you upgrade to 1.1.20 or, better, to 1.2.8 (some configuration changes may be needed). If the problem remains afterwards, there might be people willing to help. HTH, Jakob Curdes

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot 1.2.7 : configure: error: Can't build with LDAP support: libldap not found

2009-11-16 Thread Jakob Curdes
from your distribution tree or you compile e.g. OpenLDAP by hand. HTH, Jakob Curdes

Re: [Dovecot] antispam plugin claims antispam signature not found

2008-11-27 Thread Jakob Curdes
Eugene wrote (somte time ago, I am just now recollecting my threads): Jakob Curdes wrote Some weeks ago I asked a question on the antispam plugin; obviously nobody could help me. I just worked on it again but made no progress. Is actually anybody out there running the antispam plugin with dspam

Re: [Dovecot] expire tool question

2008-11-27 Thread Jakob Curdes
Maybe you'll find this thread useful: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2008-October/034747.html I already saw this. Unfortunately I do not understand the complete reasoning. If I'm right the thread basically says - dovecot-expire should log something with mail-debug=yes. (it doesn't in my

Re: [Dovecot] anti spam measures

2008-11-27 Thread Jakob Curdes
Trever L. Adams schrieb: Jakob Curdes wrote: I was the other one having this problem. Where exactly is that line? I was just looking at the whole thing again and re-testing, without any success. Cheers, Jakob In dovecot.conf, look near the very bottom, in the crm 114 section of your

Re: [Dovecot] anti spam measures

2008-11-27 Thread Jakob Curdes
Trever L. Adams wrote I assumed you pasted the antispam configuration at the end. The place I mentioned is in the antispam section. eh, too tired yesterday. My antispam config does contain a (correct) signature line, but just one: ## # GENERIC OPTIONS # mail

[Dovecot] expire tool question

2008-11-26 Thread Jakob Curdes
Hi, I try to get expire working, with the BDB backend and mbox mailboxes. If I try to invoke the expire-tool like /usr/local/sbin/dovecot --exec-mail ext /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/expire-tool --test I get [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# /usr/local/sbin/dovecot --exec-mail ext

Re: [Dovecot] expire tool question

2008-11-26 Thread Jakob Curdes
I myself wrote: Hi, I try to get expire working, with the BDB backend and mbox mailboxes. (...) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# /usr/local/sbin/dovecot --exec-mail ext /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/expire-tool --test Error: read(/var/run/dovecot/dict-server) failed: Remote disconnected Hmm. I searched for

Re: [Dovecot] anti spam measures

2008-11-26 Thread Jakob Curdes
Interesting. Somebody else was reporting the same errors, but I'm not seeing them. But I'm still using 1.1.2. I'll review the changes, I guess, but if I don't find anything quickly I won't get around to poking at it before Christmas. johannes I found out what the problem is. In your

Re: [Dovecot] antispam plugin claims antispam signature not found

2008-11-09 Thread Jakob Curdes
Some weeks ago I asked a question on the antispam plugin; obviously nobody could help me. I just worked on it again but made no progress. Is actually anybody out there running the antispam plugin with dspam?? I am willing to write a Wiki page for configuring this as soon as I get it to work.

Re: [Dovecot] antispam plugin claims antispam signature not found

2008-11-09 Thread Jakob Curdes
plugins { antispam_trash = trash;Trash;Deleted Items antispam_spam = SPAM;Spam;Junk antispam_dspam_args = --client;--deliver=;--user;%u I am using dspam in a different setup; I run it under amavis so the user is always the user amavis. I don't run a daemon so --client makes no sense.

[Dovecot] antispam plugin claims antispam signature not found

2008-10-29 Thread Jakob Curdes
Hi, I am trying to setup the antispam plugin using the direct dspam backend. I have set antispam_signature = X-DSPAM-Signature in dovecot.conf and in all mails I have signature lines like X-DSPAM-Signature: 1,49084a24139132188715614 but still, if I try to move a mail into the spam folder, i

Re: [Dovecot] Quick question regarding autocreate plugin

2008-10-29 Thread Jakob Curdes
just a quick question: if I want to use the autocreate plugin with 1.1.5, I have to compile it by hand, right? How do I do that? Can I adapt a Makefile from another plugin? I meanwhile solved this and updated the WIKI to explain how the plugin can be compiled with the 1.1.x source tree. cf.

Re: [Dovecot] Best configuration of dovecot for limit Outlook problems with IMAP

2008-10-29 Thread Jakob Curdes
My guess is that OE is just buggy and there's nothing that can be done to fix it. That's also my view. Or, to use a more neutral term: Outlook and Outlook Express do support IMAP, but their support of the IMAP format is limited. For an IMAP mail server, they are probably not the best

Re: [Dovecot] Best configuration of dovecot for limit Outlook problems with IMAP

2008-10-29 Thread Jakob Curdes
Generally a straightforward way to cure suche MS client errors is to remove the account in Outlook or OE and re-create it. One can also delete the cache files for the account but the first way is more explainable to a user. JC

[Dovecot] Quick question regarding autocreate plugin

2008-10-28 Thread Jakob Curdes
Hello, just a quick question: if I want to use the autocreate plugin with 1.1.5, I have to compile it by hand, right? How do I do that? Can I adapt a Makefile from another plugin? JC

[Dovecot] Limiting SSL (external) access to certain users ?

2008-06-24 Thread Jakob Curdes
I am looking for a way to limit outside access to the IMAP server to certain users only. Basic idea is to use two userdbs, one for SSL connections and one internal with most users in it. Is there a way to do this without running two dovecot configurations? Thanks for hints, Jakob

Re: [Dovecot] Limiting SSL (external) access to certain users ?

2008-06-24 Thread Jakob Curdes
Jakob Curdes schrieb: I am looking for a way to limit outside access to the IMAP server to certain users only. Basic idea is to use two userdbs, one for SSL connections and one internal with most users in it. Is there a way to do this without running two dovecot configurations? Found my own