Re: [Dovecot] mbox folders on-disc layout

2012-04-20 Thread John Robinson
On 18/04/2012 17:45, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 18.4.2012, at 14.36, John Robinson wrote: I'd like to change the on-disk layout for my mboxes from being ~/mail/foo/bar to ~/mail/foo.bar so that I can have folders containing both messages and subfolders, without having subfolders begi

[Dovecot] mbox folders on-disc layout

2012-04-18 Thread John Robinson
I'd like to change the on-disk layout for my mboxes from being ~/mail/foo/bar to ~/mail/foo.bar so that I can have folders containing both messages and subfolders, without having subfolders beginning with . and then having to do all the other fiddling with locations of index files etc. that

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot login failing

2007-07-12 Thread John Robinson
On 12/07/2007 23:19, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 15:12 +0100, Richard Ellis wrote: auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd You have no auth settings that change the username, so it must be Squirrelmail that adds it. I suspect the vlogin plugin. Quo

Re: [Dovecot] Semi-static userdb...?

2007-05-14 Thread John Robinson
On 11/05/2007 15:57, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 14:00 +0100, John Robinson wrote: I'm trying to add "virtual" mailboxes to a system. Real users with different uids own domains. Each domain has a passwd-file passdb. I don't want to use this passwd-file for t

Re: [Dovecot] Best authentication option

2007-05-02 Thread John Robinson
On 02/05/2007 12:13, Eric wrote: Dear Dovecot experts, I have a small home server debian based, with postfix/dovecot/squirrelmail installed locally and working. Dovecot is used non-secured (no imaps) but only on the 192.168.0.100 address (address of the server on the local network). I want to use

[Dovecot] Semi-static userdb...?

2007-04-20 Thread John Robinson
I'm trying to add "virtual" mailboxes to a system. Real users with different uids own domains. Each domain has a passwd-file passdb. I don't want to use this passwd-file for the userdb, because I want to fix the home, mail and uid/gid settings. Can I use the static userdb in a less static manne

Re: [Dovecot] Time just moved backwards

2007-04-17 Thread John Robinson
On 09/04/2007 03:24, Sean Kamath wrote: On Apr 8, 2007, at 2:20 PM, Bill Cole wrote: It is important for people to understand how much simpler it is now to run basically functional and non-abusive NTP than it was even 5 years ago. The work put into making pool.ntp.org usable has essentially e

Re: [Dovecot] Patch (Re: Different classes of user)

2007-04-17 Thread John Robinson
On 10/03/2007 14:15, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 15:12 +, John Robinson wrote: Otherwise looks ok. But I think I'll add this to CVS HEAD and not v1.0. I'm at least trying to keep a feature freeze. :) Oh go on, it's not likely to hurt any existing installatio

Re: [Dovecot] ssl connections frozen, client times out

2007-04-08 Thread John Robinson
On 03/04/2007 17:45, Steve Mulligan wrote: Timo Sirainen wrote: I hope you've never actually tried to use this "ssl_listen = *:110" setting? pop3s is in port 995. Sadly yes, for now. I'm the only one using the pop server and I don't have control over opening my own ports to the outside world

Re: [Dovecot] prefetch + static + deliver

2007-03-31 Thread John Robinson
On 30/03/2007 22:27, Tom Bombadil wrote: Hi all... The prefetch entry in the wiki says: "If you're using Dovecot's local delivery agent, you'll still need a valid userdb which it can use to locate the users. You can do this by adding a normal sql/ldap userdb after userdb prefetch." (http://wi

Re: [Dovecot] Version numbering

2007-03-29 Thread John Robinson
On 29/03/2007 22:27, Axel Thimm wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 09:43:48PM +0100, John Robinson wrote: [...] If you use ATrpms packages, you ought to have read the support details (i.e. testing latest software, works for Axel, don't complain to him). No, please do complain to Axe

Re: [Dovecot] Version numbering

2007-03-29 Thread John Robinson
On 29/03/2007 03:41, Eric Rostetter wrote: Quoting John Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 28/03/2007 19:39, Eric Rostetter wrote: People running Fedora Core run 0.99, and they do not know it isn't production (since it comes with FC, which they don't know isn't production)

Re: [Dovecot] Unexpected behaviour when deleteing a big mailbox

2007-03-29 Thread John Robinson
On 29/03/2007 15:19, Steffen Kaiser wrote: On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote: xfs is a lot slower than ext3 with maildir at least in my tests. Doh, hm, I'm back to ext3 then. When Ext3 opens a directory with many many files, the whole system slows down, an user managed to issue a trem

Re: [Dovecot] Version numbering

2007-03-28 Thread John Robinson
On 28/03/2007 19:39, Eric Rostetter wrote: People running Fedora Core run 0.99, and they do not know it isn't production (since it comes with FC, which they don't know isn't production). They ought to; FC in its entirety is devel for RHEL, and this is prominently pointed out all over the F we

Re: [Dovecot] PAM auth problem

2007-03-28 Thread John Robinson
On 28/03/2007 17:32, Taras Savchuk wrote: In FreeBSD pam_group does exactly what I want: Oh, sorry, didn't know you were on *BSD but I suppose I shouldn't have assumed Linux. In Linux-PAM, pam_wheel's documentation is very similar to your pam_group, with the addition of an option: use_uid

Re: [Dovecot] PAM auth problem

2007-03-28 Thread John Robinson
On 28/03/2007 16:52, Taras Savchuk wrote: Pam auth don't work when I add pam_group: pam_group grants membership to groups, it can't be used to authenticate. Use pam_wheel or pam_succeed_if, and see http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/Linux-PAM_SAG.html Cheers, John.

Re: [Dovecot] Allow/disallow mail access based on group membership

2007-03-28 Thread John Robinson
On 28/03/2007 12:10, Taras Savchuk wrote: I'm just finished FreeBSD/AD integration via Kerberos/LDAP and now I can manage unix users/groups from AD. I want to grant access to IMAP based on user membership in certain group. Is it possible? Can you give me some hints? My quick thought is that t

Re: [Dovecot] Version numbering

2007-03-28 Thread John Robinson
On 28/03/2007 01:46, Timo Sirainen wrote: After v1.0 is released, I can finally get back to sane version numbers. But any comments on which one is better: a) Postfix-style: "1.1.UNSTABLE.MMDD" -> 1.1.0 (stable) b) Odd-even numbering: 1.1.x (unstable) -> 1.2.0 (stable) With a) style the rel

Re: [Dovecot] Multiple delivery with LDA+sieve

2007-03-25 Thread John Robinson
On 25/03/2007 15:12, Timo Sirainen wrote: I guess this duplicate checking could be done, but I wouldn't want it enabled by default. You've got to be careful anyway, these so-called duplicates often come via different routes (e.g. directly and via a mailing list), may have been processed diffe

Re: [Dovecot] anonymous mailing list archive configuration?

2007-03-25 Thread John Robinson
On 25/03/2007 13:39, Johannes Berg wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 14:27 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: [...] However, one thing I'm not clear on is how to prevent that user from creating new folders. [...] Oh, I found a solution already. Make the maildir read-only and put CONTROL/INDEX elsewhere i

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc28 / v1.0 plans

2007-03-24 Thread John Robinson
On 23/03/2007 21:21, John Peacock wrote: This is the entire message: = Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Is this really it? There's no - in this header. Cheers, John.

Re: [Dovecot] compiling dovecot on aix gcc 3.3.2

2007-03-23 Thread John Robinson
On 23/03/2007 14:11, funkypunky drunky wrote: [...] login_greeting = Microsoft Exchange POP3 server version 5.5.2653.23 ready [...] Then i start dovecot. It returns an error. What do you expect, if you tell it to behave like Exchange? Cheers, John.

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot 'suicide'

2007-03-21 Thread John Robinson
On 21/03/2007 19:35, John Andrea wrote: As others mentioned, using ntpd avoids this problem entirely. Not entirely. If you need to restart ntpd, the time can jump when catching up with 'step-tickers'. Which is a good reason for starting ntpd before other network services, because once it's

Re: [Dovecot] One user having reproducible IMAP issues

2007-03-18 Thread John Robinson
On 16/03/2007 19:06, Alex Boster wrote: Does anyone have a quick recipe for how to do the filtering? We are on CentOS 4 using a near default setup... Does that mean dovecot 0.99? If so you ought to build or download something more recent (ready-made latest is available from atrpms.net) The

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc27 released - Compiling on AIX - brovke bitfield in mbox-sync-private.h

2007-03-18 Thread John Robinson
On 18/03/2007 15:51, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 01:39 +0100, Václav Haisman wrote: [...] uint32_t flags:8; uint32_t uid_broken:1; uint32_t expunged:1; uint32_t pseudo:1; Right, I didn't think of that. But that feels a bit ugly :) I don't think it saves much memory anyway, so I