Re: [Dovecot] lock file strangeness

2012-07-25 Thread Joseph Tam
m, are you sure these are dovecot locks? They look sort of like what alpine would produce. Do your clients have direct filesystem access to the INBOX spool? Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] what best for anti-spam filter?

2012-07-24 Thread Joseph Tam
=43 24 = 13 Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] expire-tool stops on first box with nothing to expire in it

2012-07-18 Thread Joseph Tam
client actually saves or moves a message? Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot 2.1.8 crashes when doing POP3 UIDL on empty INBOX

2012-07-08 Thread Joseph Tam
quot;UIDL", args=0x19eb8 "") at pop3-commands.c:889 Fixed: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/rev/ea18b2ddb67b Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 05:52:03 +0300 2 hours after I reported it; do you ever sleep?! Thanks. Joseph Tam

[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.1.8 crashes when doing POP3 UIDL on empty INBOX

2012-07-06 Thread Joseph Tam
268 Some non-trivial changes in pop3-commands.c were done between 2.1.3 and 2.1.8 (expecially pop3_uidl_duplicates changes in 2.1.7). I guess this bug has crept in there. Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] Removing specific entry in user/auth cache

2012-06-27 Thread Joseph Tam
orces a resync to your authentication system which will restore the auth cache. Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] auth trouble

2012-06-05 Thread Joseph Tam
ion after AUTH from {remote-hostname}[{remote-ip}] Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] auth trouble

2012-06-04 Thread Joseph Tam
red to use Dovecot's SASL authentication framework. Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] Can we know when a user read our email?

2012-05-15 Thread Joseph Tam
mean it was ignored, but it's better than nothing. If you value your privacy, turn off HTML rendering on your Email reader. Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot LDA with sendmail

2012-04-25 Thread Joseph Tam
wiki. So that's what I did. Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot LDA with sendmail

2012-04-21 Thread Joseph Tam
: dovecot mailer (/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda) exited with EX_TEMPFAIL Any logs for dovecot? Same sendmail configs as before or did you try the extra flag I suggested? Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] Error in logs indicating broken files

2012-04-20 Thread Joseph Tam
's safe to ignore them. Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot LDA with sendmail

2012-04-19 Thread Joseph Tam
ng out the problem. I don't have virtual users, so I can't venture to say whether this is part of the problem. I know I had to fiddle with the mailer flags (you have "DFMPhnu9") to get my setup working, but I don't remember what I did or why. Try adding the "S" flag and see if that helps. Joseph Tam

[Dovecot] alias_for

2012-04-18 Thread Joseph Tam
I noticed the addition of a new namespace configuration "alias_for". What pracical difference is adding this over and above making namespace aliases hidden and disabling list, as in older versions of dovecot configurations? Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] Using a namespace for providing access to mail snapshots for user based on-demand restoration of email backups

2012-04-05 Thread Joseph Tam
be accomplished with a synthetic filesystem. Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] Many messages clustered around the same date.saved value

2012-03-28 Thread Joseph Tam
e, when does it get instantiated? When I actually ask for it? Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] Many messages clustered around the same date.saved value

2012-03-26 Thread Joseph Tam
ues using some variation of doveadm, even though I remember confining my testing to query/search/fetch. This appears to be a case of PEBKAC. These "wrong" values shouldn't cause problems with expunge queries since they err on the side of safety. Thanks for the insight though. Joseph Tam

[Dovecot] Many messages clustered around the same date.saved value

2012-03-25 Thread Joseph Tam
h mailboxes, which is statistically unlikely. I did't see anything special in the dovecot logs at this time to explain this. What would cause this? Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] Problems with upgrade 2.0.16 -> 2.1.3

2012-03-24 Thread Joseph Tam
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 23.3.2012, at 12.58, Joseph Tam wrote: I ran into two issues trying to upgrade our dovecot installation (Solaris 10). 1) Does not compile with OpenSSL 0.9.7 Not a big deal, as I was able to successfully against OpenSSL 0.9.8, but

Re: [Dovecot] sysconfdir depreacted

2012-03-23 Thread Joseph Tam
uffix or something?). +1. I fake it now with symlinks (e.g. etc/dovecot -> .). Joseph Tam

[Dovecot] Problems with upgrade 2.0.16 -> 2.1.3

2012-03-23 Thread Joseph Tam
ter seeing 2) in the logs, I had to revert back to 2.0.16. Any hints on what could be wrong? Joseph Tam # 2.0.16: /var/dovecot/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: SunOS 5.10 sun4u nfs auth_cache_negative_ttl = 10 mins auth_cache_size = 64 k auth_cache_ttl = 1 days auth_failure_delay = 5 sec

Re: [Dovecot] .mailboxlist -> .subscriptions

2012-03-14 Thread Joseph Tam
o the mail folder). Is this correct? That depends -- are you aliasing namespaces so that prefix={"", "mail/", etc.} all map to a user's ~/mail folder? You may be creating a confusing situation where a client with a null IMAP prefix has 2 copies of a mailbox. Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] doveadm -A stops processing at first uid

2012-03-05 Thread Joseph Tam
* src/auth/auth-settings.c, src/auth/auth-settings.h, src/auth/userdb- passwd.c: auth: userdb passwd iteration now lists only users within first_valid_uid..last_valid_uid range. [745ef289b0ea] Joseph Tam

[Dovecot] doveadm -A stops processing at first uid

2012-03-01 Thread Joseph Tam
es like ls, chown, etc. There are various workaround like iterating manually, or setting first_valid_uid to zero, or even reordering users to put all system accounts at the end, but is there a better way to do this? Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] Why is dovecot involved in my smtp process

2012-02-23 Thread Joseph Tam
think looks up my name service backend via the login and plain plugins. I'm a little hazy on how this was set up, but if you are able to successfully login without dovecot, then it appears you have some sort of authentication stack that will try IMAP first, then fallback to your the other method. Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] Questions still about a uw-imap -> dovecot conversion

2012-02-21 Thread Joseph Tam
wn(/dc-cache/smith/.imap/xx, group=6(mail)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=5678(goodgroup), group based on /home/smith/mail/xx - see http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Errors/ChgrpNoPerm) dovecot: imap(smith): Error: mkdir(/dc-cache/smith/.imap/xx) failed: Not owner Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] Questions still about a uw-imap -> dovecot conversion

2012-02-20 Thread Joseph Tam
ation will fail and they won't be able to access their mailboxes. I think my migration went pretty smoothly. Less than a handful of wazzup' Email problem reports. Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] Mountpoints

2012-01-30 Thread Joseph Tam
stence will tell you whether the FS is mounted without trying to find the mount root. Oh, but then again if you have per-user mounts, that's going to get messy. Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] mail_max_userip_connections exceeded.

2012-01-20 Thread Joseph Tam
. On my system, file descriptor 9 and 11 gives you the names of the index files that indicate which mailboxes are being accessed. Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] Why imap_open doesn't work as is expected to?

2011-12-21 Thread Joseph Tam
using imap_errors(); Without more details, I would say you dropped one of those /option-flags or got the mailbox argument syntax wrong. Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] doveadm fetch vs search+fetch

2011-12-07 Thread Joseph Tam
have to dump the first line, ugh!). It doesn't matter all that much except some extra man page reading, but it will save you the bother of having to maintain a separate binary, man page, etc. for what is essentially a duplicate. Joseph Tam

[Dovecot] doveadm fetch vs search+fetch

2011-12-07 Thread Joseph Tam
latter obsolete. It can even be closely simulated with "doveadm -f tab fetch ... 'mailbox-guid uid' search-query ...". Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] doveadm delete-user ?

2011-11-02 Thread Joseph Tam
in a different place than the mail folder. Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] newbie: can't login as virtual user

2011-10-27 Thread Joseph Tam
reports to have looked in the system password file, failed, then looked in /etc/dovecot/users and found the user and logged them in. I think the problem happens later and you will have to show the subsequent log entries. Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] Filesystem quotas

2011-10-10 Thread Joseph Tam
passe. Disabling dotlock or using dotlock_try locking method are some other workarounds. Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] SSL only for external connections

2011-10-03 Thread Joseph Tam
's also possible have interface specific CAPA strings and remove STARTTLS. Dovecot will support unencrypted sessions over the localhost interface, but your webmail seems to opportunistcally use it when offered, so don't offer it. Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] Error message in log

2011-09-30 Thread Joseph Tam
group ownership of "/var/mail/knute", put user "knute" in group "mail", or chmod it to 0600. The last one is probably the best solution. And fix the problem that created these permissions in the first place. Check your other users (if you have any) for the same situation. Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] error in logs, but system appears to work

2011-09-06 Thread Joseph Tam
ot a part of, and fix up the permissions. Such a thing could happen if you've reassigned a user's GID. Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] Catch22: user needs space to fix out of space condition

2011-08-29 Thread Joseph Tam
is to replace file access with kerberized IMAP access, but that's much further down the road. Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] : error while loading shared libraries: libdovecot.so.0 (arm cross compile)

2011-08-29 Thread Joseph Tam
.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory In cases like this where I have no clue where an executable is trying to load a library from, run a process trace tool (strace, truss, etc.) and you can see all the library run paths it's trying before failing. Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] Catch22: user needs space to fix out of space condition

2011-08-26 Thread Joseph Tam
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011, Joseph Tam wrote: Thanks to all who've made suggestions. It seems removing dotlocks as a locking method is the way to go. Actually, this gives me pause that maybe I should not enirely remove the dotlocking method http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipe

Re: [Dovecot] Catch22: user needs space to fix out of space condition

2011-08-26 Thread Joseph Tam
as dotlock, but if it fails because of permissions or # because there isn't enough disk space, just skip it. mbox_write_locks = dotlock_try fcntl Joseph Tam

[Dovecot] Catch22: user needs space to fix out of space condition

2011-08-24 Thread Joseph Tam
open(/var/mail/user.lock) failed: Disc quota exceeded This created an impasse where a user cannot free space because he needs to create a lock file that cannot be created because he needs free space. Is there any way out of this without administrator intervention? Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] Update indexes with dovecot 1.1

2011-08-19 Thread Joseph Tam
LECT INBOX\n3 logout" | \ nc 127.0.0.1 143 done Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] Converting from qpopper mbox to dovecot maildir

2011-07-25 Thread Joseph Tam
/www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/33485042/duplicate-messageiduidlleave-on-serverrepeated-downloads-of-em.aspx https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/view.php?id=3599 Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] Converting from qpopper mbox to dovecot maildir

2011-07-05 Thread Joseph Tam
drop copy on another filesytem, you essentially halved a user's quota. - because of the above, qpopper eats I/O like candy. - multiple client qoppper access will trouncing/locking user INBOXs. Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] Converting from qpopper mbox to dovecot maildir

2011-07-05 Thread Joseph Tam
o use pop3_reuse_xuidl = yes so that clients don't re-download all their messages. Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] [Urgent] Email Retrieval from remote servers doesn't use Dovecot

2011-06-29 Thread Joseph Tam
erify that in fact your client is connecting. Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] Default sendmail_path value

2011-06-27 Thread Joseph Tam
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Sun, 2011-06-26 at 16:43 -0700, Joseph Tam wrote: ... but the documentations states http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA sendmail_path is used to send mails. Note that the default is /usr/lib/sendmail, which doesn't necessarily work the sa

[Dovecot] Default sendmail_path value

2011-06-26 Thread Joseph Tam
necessarily work the same as /usr/sbin/sendmail. I don't know which ought to be changed though. Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] How to stop mail_executable from cwd to ~home

2011-05-23 Thread Joseph Tam
the other information stripped out. Or just let dovecot do an automount on a per-user demand and see how it goes -- I think this only becomes a concern if I do a doveadm command with wildcarded users. Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] How to stop mail_executable from cwd to ~home

2011-05-23 Thread Joseph Tam
opic thread "Global fields for passwd-file database". Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] How to stop mail_executable from cwd to ~home

2011-05-21 Thread Joseph Tam
ctory rather than putting core files somewhere else, I don't know how to do it without altering the source code or wrapping these processes in something that alters the HOME environment variable. I also can't find how user->flags sets MAIL_STORAGE_SERVICE_FLAG_NO_CHDIR or MAIL_STORAGE_SERVICE_FLAG_ENABLE_CORE_DUMPS that could influence this behaviour. Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] How to stop mail_executable from cwd to ~home

2011-05-19 Thread Joseph Tam
ot;/nfs/home/test/mail", 0xFFBFF6C0) = 0 ... This happens fairly early after imap-login forks and execs the imap process. I'll see if I can find it after building a debug version, but I think Timo will beat me to this. Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] doveadm mailbox status 2.0.12 crashes

2011-05-09 Thread Joseph Tam
t; 0x168d4 -> 0x169e0 -> 0x16ef4 -> 0x1745c -> 0x1cafc -> 0x1629c Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot & OCFS2 Cluster

2011-04-26 Thread Joseph Tam
d the above problem. It can take advantage of this to efficiently implement single instance storage if it is enabled. performance should better too Apart from multiple deliveries or SIS, I'm not sure this is true, or significant if it were. Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] LDA null logging patch

2011-04-20 Thread Joseph Tam
). See example configuration files for a full list of variable expansion: {{{ delivery_log_format = msgid=%m: %$ }}} Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] 2.0.12 ipwd.c does not compile under solaris

2011-04-17 Thread Joseph Tam
about forcing the use of POSIX threading models (a workaround path is provided): http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2011-April/058602.html Joseph Tam

[Dovecot] LDA null logging patch

2011-04-16 Thread Joseph Tam
) || !(*ctx->set->deliver_log_format)) + return; + va_start(args, fmt); Joseph Tam

[Dovecot] doveadm mailbox status 2.0.12 crashes

2011-04-16 Thread Joseph Tam
;doveadm-mail.c" [16] doveadm_mail_try_run(cmd_name = 0xffbffd0d "mailbox", argc = 6, argv = 0xffbffbf8), line 480 in "doveadm-mail.c" [17] main(argc = 6, argv = 0xffbffbf8), line 183 in "doveadm.c" Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] SUMMARY: LDA vs LMTP, Cyrus SASL, verbose_proctitle

2011-04-12 Thread Joseph Tam
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 18:19 -0700, Joseph Tam wrote: > Also, one significant advantage not mentioned for LMTP was that one > delivery failure to multiple recipients can be disambiguated; LDA can only > return an exit code to be tested by the MTA, but the MTA ca

[Dovecot] SUMMARY: LDA vs LMTP, Cyrus SASL, verbose_proctitle

2011-04-11 Thread Joseph Tam
answer to is verbose_proctitle is broken for Solaris. There is no setproctitle(), and ps does not report changes to a process's argv[]: echo "main(int c,char**v){**v='x';sleep(9);}" | \ gcc -xc -o y -; ./y; rm y & ps -f You'll have to use "lsof", "pfiles" or "doveadm who" to get the information. Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] Permission Denied - cannot create inbox

2011-04-08 Thread Joseph Tam
based on /var/mail/tss - see http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Errors/NoPerm) Changed the wiki link: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Errors/ChgrpNoPerm Thanks, Timo. This will be opaque to the user, but I don't think it will happen often so it's no bother to find the problem in the logs. Joseph Tam

[Dovecot] LDA vs LMTP, Cyrus SASL, verbose_proctitle

2011-04-07 Thread Joseph Tam
ed on dovecot.conf? Also, can I consolidate authentication by configuring dovecot to use what sendmail uses (Cyrus SASL) or vice versa? The Wiki hints this is in the works. Lastly, toggling verbose_proctitle seems to have no effect on the output of ps. Is verbose_proctitle broken for Solaris? Thanks, J

[Dovecot] Permission Denied - cannot create inbox

2011-04-07 Thread Joseph Tam
happen if a user is revoked from a group's membership. Would it be useful to make this a configurable behaviour whereby a chgrp() failure of cache files will fall back to chown'ing to user=owner, mode=0600 instead? Or just leave the user to scratch their head? Joseph Tam

Re: [Dovecot] SSD drives are really fast running Dovecot

2011-01-17 Thread Joseph Tam
, this policy works out fairly well. Joseph Tam

<    1   2   3   4   5   6