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

2012-06-03 Thread Linda Walsh
Ed W wrote: Just to register interest, but at some point I will need to consider writing a plugin or similar to achieve exactly this. Situation is that several of our competitors offer such a feature, ie known pool of users on dialup or intermittently connected systems, provide an alert

Re: [Dovecot] BEWARE: you might be supporting the lists owner!!

2012-05-17 Thread Linda Walsh
Jeff Kletsky wrote: Even with good intent the message in question is clearly in violation of CAN-SPAM and Cal. Bus. Prof. Code Sec. 17529, of which the sender was informed of when my server was accessed. --- And you have proof of this? That they received notice? I assume you have their

Re: [Dovecot] dsync is SLOW compared to rsync

2012-03-24 Thread Linda Walsh
Jeff Gustafson wrote: On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 19:02 +0100, Christoph Bußenius wrote: Hi, maybe try dsync -o mail_fsync=never. That didn't seem to make much of a difference. On a 3.1GB backup it shaved off 5 seconds. dsync's time was over 6 minutes with or without the

Re: [Dovecot] kernel problem in RedHat? -- RH specific, or what linux kernels does this affect?

2012-03-24 Thread Linda Walsh
Is this redhat's version of the kernel only? Or does it apply to other linux kernels and other distros? Any idea what linux kernel versions might cause this? (from main dovecot webpage news) Thu Mar 22 14:38:53 EET 2012 Red Hat/CentOS users: A recent kernel update

Re: [Dovecot] Thunderbird slow in talking with dovecot IMAP AND to sendmail

2011-10-31 Thread Linda Walsh
Charles Marcus wrote: On 2011-10-25 6:14 AM, Linda Walsh dove...@tlinx.org wrote: and everyfrackin' body was using 4K packet sizes (at the application level!, the window size on TCP was over 64K...but no one was using it)especially galling with my network's MTU at 9K, BTW, because small

[Dovecot] Thunderbird slow in talking with dovecot IMAP AND to sendmail

2011-10-25 Thread Linda Walsh
I'm trying to find out what's causing this slowdown -- it's INTOLERABLE over 1 minute and less than 1% done. (400MB file)... After trying 3 times, I gave up and logged in using X to the server and ran Tbird from there Mail sent out in 1 minute, though the copy to dovecot took

Re: [Dovecot] outlook 2007 very slow.

2011-09-19 Thread Linda Walsh
` Kui Zhang wrote: Hello I have a user with 2500+ sub folders. Total mailboxes size is around 6G. (mdbox, dovecot 2:2.0.14) Syncing/Receiving appears to be slow, with outlook 2007. He does not want to switch to an alternative, due to various reasons. Any one else having similar issue?

Re: [Dovecot] Why can NOT login as root

2011-09-19 Thread Linda Walsh
John Allen wrote: As far as I recall, IMAP servers generally don't allow access to root. According to the Dovecot wiki, this is hard-coded in the binary: http://wiki.dovecot.org/MainConfig see under first_valid_uid If the root user is receiving emails, these need to be redirected to

[Dovecot] auth_username_chars question

2011-07-08 Thread Linda Walsh
I notice there is a space after the = in the default setting: #auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ Is that space part of the syntax or required? If not, does that mean 'space' is included in the default list of allowed characters? If

[Dovecot] performance problems with IMAPS

2011-05-10 Thread Linda Walsh
I've noticed this before and wasn't sure of the problem -- sending large files from FF. I tracked it down, and the problem is in dovecot when it is saving the mail to my 'Record' (Outbox)... It's saving the file in tiny chunks Looking at a few, I see: 4148 bytes 2116 bytes 1604

Re: [Dovecot] performance problems with IMAPS

2011-05-10 Thread Linda Walsh
Timo Sirainen wrote: On 10.5.2011, at 22.45, Linda Walsh wrote: I've noticed this before and wasn't sure of the problem -- sending large files from FF. What is FF? Sorry, meant TB (Thunderbird, 2.x), FF=Firefox, BTW, braino-confusion. I tracked it down, and the problem