When is a new mail not unseen?

2019-12-23 Thread Philip Colmer
I'm trying to diagnose a really strange situation where certain emails, when submitted to the mailbox by Postfix, are not considered to be unseen by Dovecot. During testing, I've shut down anything else on the server that might want to access the mailbox. I submit the email to the local postfix in

Re: When is a new mail not unseen?

2019-12-24 Thread Philip Colmer
On Tue, 24 Dec 2019 at 08:04, Aki Tuomi wrote: > > On 23/12/2019 22:17 Michael < m...@hemathor.de> wrote: > > > On Monday, December 23, 2019 11:22:27 AM CET, Sami Ketola wrote: > > change your configuration to use some more optimized mailbox > format and configure postfix to deliver over dovecot-

Re: When is a new mail not unseen?

2019-12-24 Thread Philip Colmer
On Tue, 24 Dec 2019 at 09:28, Philip Colmer wrote: > > I'm working on switching over to getting Postfix to deliver via lmtp but > the above seems to me to be a good manual workflow to emulate what should > be happening and it concerns me that Dovecot still says there are no

How does dovecot determine users from /etc/passwd?

2020-02-17 Thread Philip Colmer
We're using dovecot on a help desk ticketing system. The system doesn't perform any cleanup of IMAP mailboxes so we have a regular cronjob doing this: /usr/bin/doveadm flags add -A '\Deleted' SEEN SENTBEFORE 12w && /usr/bin/doveadm expunge -A DELETED MAILBOX '*' Recently, doveadm has been reporti

Re: How does dovecot determine users from /etc/passwd?

2020-02-19 Thread Philip Colmer
Thank you, Sami. I've made that change. Regards Philip On Mon, 17 Feb 2020 at 10:50, Sami Ketola wrote: > Hi, > > how about switching to use autoexpunge? > > https://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxSettings > > Sami > > > On 17 Feb 2020, at 11.01, Philip Colmer

Dovecot autoexpunge

2020-03-03 Thread Philip Colmer
Following a previous suggestion I'd received to turn on autoexpunge (https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2020-February/118281.html), I'm now trying to confirm whether or not it is doing what I expect it to do. I've set the expiration to be 12 weeks (as shown below in the config) but a lot of the

Getting autoexpunge to work

2020-03-17 Thread Philip Colmer
dovecot 2.2.33.2 (d6601f4ec) on Ubuntu 18.04 The recent announcement that expunge is going to be deprecated and that autoexpunge should be used instead reminded me that my recent switch over to autoexpunge is not working. There has been an active discussion today about getting expunge working so

Re: Getting autoexpunge to work

2020-03-17 Thread Philip Colmer
On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 at 15:47, Sami Ketola wrote: > > > > > On 17 Mar 2020, at 16.42, Philip Colmer wrote: > > > > doveadm fetch -u local-finance-support "mailbox date.saved" UID 37 > > > > mailbox: INBOX > > date.saved: 2020-03-17 14:34:12 &

Re: Headsup on feature removal

2020-03-18 Thread Philip Colmer
> Additionally, the mbox format will no longer receive new development. It will > still be > maintained, however its use beyond migrations and other limited use cases > will be discouraged. As someone who digs into instructions to find just the bits and pieces needed to get things going, is ther