Re: [Dovecot] sysconfdir depreacted

2012-03-23 Thread Rainer Frey
On Mar 23, 2012, at 10:51 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: >>> :2012-03-22T11:55:Noel Butler: >>> perhaps it should be renamed then, given it violates the known normal for SYSCONF dir, you've just created another form of --datadir >>> >>> Not really. The way I see it works as expected. >> >>

Re: [Dovecot] Authentication listener configuration

2011-12-02 Thread Rainer Frey
> On 29.11.2011, at 08:19, Rainer Frey wrote: >> I'm wondering about the authentication listeners that dovecot uses. In many >> configurations I see: >> service auth { >> unix_listener auth-userdb { >> >> Does any component of dovecot use this list

Re: [Dovecot] Authentication listener configuration

2011-12-02 Thread Rainer Frey
On 29.11.2011, at 08:19, Rainer Frey wrote: > Hi, > > I'm wondering about the authentication listeners that dovecot uses. In many > configurations I see: > service auth { > unix_listener auth-userdb { > > Does any component of dovecot use this listener internall

[Dovecot] Authentication listener configuration

2011-11-28 Thread Rainer Frey
Hi, I'm wondering about the authentication listeners that dovecot uses. In many configurations I see: service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { Does any component of dovecot use this listener internally (lmtp, lda ...) and does that read the config and search for the listener, or is the exact

Re: [Dovecot] What best decision to make for flatfiles or SQL when I use Dovecot2 + Postfix together?

2011-09-29 Thread Rainer Frey
On 28.09.2011, at 00:14, terryjames9...@mm.st wrote: > Hello Patrick, > > On Tuesday, September 27, 2011 6:06 PM, "Patrick Domack" > wrote: >> Using dovecot lda/lmtp you remove all postfix needs to know mailbox >> name to directory mapping, that would be duplicated. > > With using the Doveco

Re: [Dovecot] POP3 vs. IMAP Load/Memory usage in Dovecot 1.0.15

2011-07-11 Thread Rainer Frey
On 11.07.2011, at 17:03, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > The R410 is a two socket Xeon box with max 2 x 6 core CPUs. The 24 CPUs > you see is the result of HyperThreading being enabled. I'd disable HT > if I were you, or those boxen mine. Why? Rainer

Re: [Dovecot] LMTP logging configuration

2010-09-09 Thread Rainer Frey
On Wednesday 08 September 2010 16:11:43 Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 14:00 +0200, Rainer Frey wrote: > > > The problem is that all logging goes through log process, which > > > currently only supports a single logging destination. But .. I think > > &g

Re: [Dovecot] LMTP logging configuration

2010-09-08 Thread Rainer Frey
On Tuesday 07 September 2010 16:21:35 Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 09:23 +0200, Rainer Frey wrote: > > protocol lmtp { > > > > syslog_facility = mail > > > > } > > > > but this has no effect, LMTP logs to local0. Is this sup

[Dovecot] LMTP logging configuration

2010-09-07 Thread Rainer Frey
Hi, I'm using Dovecot 2.0.1, and I log to a custom syslog facility (local0) in the main configuration (I want a separate log file, but I want to make use of rsyslogd's capabilities). I overwrite the syslog facility for LDA (mail) to have all delivery related stuff in /var/log/mail.log, and tha

Re: [Dovecot] Home directories

2010-08-25 Thread Rainer Frey
On Tuesday 24 August 2010 16:57:23 Timo Sirainen wrote: > I've noticed that a lot of people are using e.g.: > > mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n > > Then either they don't have home directory set, or their home directory > is the same as the maildir. http://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers/H

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot aspects of fighting spam

2010-06-01 Thread Rainer Frey
On Tuesday 01 June 2010 17:01:16 Phil Howard wrote: > On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:45, Rainer Frey wrote: > > I guess you'll have the mental transfer of "fight spam" into "cause > > dovecot to perform this and that action" yourself. The possible actions > &

Re: [Dovecot] Sieve GUI

2010-06-01 Thread Rainer Frey
On Tuesday 01 June 2010 20:55:52 Phil Howard wrote: > wrote: > > On 6/1/10 2:10 PM -0400 Phil Howard wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 13:42, e-frog wrote: > >>> This might be helpful: > >>> > >>> http://wiki.dovecot.org/ManageSieve/ > >> > >> Right now only time for a quick look. Looks like

Re: [Dovecot] Sieve GUI

2010-06-01 Thread Rainer Frey
On Tuesday 01 June 2010 20:10:08 Phil Howard wrote: > Looks like I will need to do a lot of reading on Sieve and ManageSieve > to be sure it's safe. For one thing, I want to turn the vacation > feature off unless it can cross check a list of valid senders (user > contacts). No need to turn it off

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot aspects of fighting spam

2010-06-01 Thread Rainer Frey
On Tuesday 01 June 2010 15:42:18 Phil Howard wrote: > I see no documents in the Dovecot documents wiki on how Dovecot > features can be used in the fight against spam. One hit came up in a > search, and it was about how to fight spam in the MoinMoin Wiki itself > (e.g. TextCHAs and such). I guess

Re: [Dovecot] best choice of user database file to work with postfix?

2010-04-22 Thread Rainer Frey
On Thursday 22 April 2010 18:15:18 Phil Howard wrote: [ ... all standard stuff that is well documented ... ] > 5. Passwords stored encrypted, such as MD5. And it should be a scheme > that both Postfix and Dovecot can use so I don't have keep two different > encryption schemes. Postfix doesn't n

Re: [Dovecot] best choice of user database file to wor k with?postfix?

2010-04-22 Thread Rainer Frey (Inxmail GmbH)
On Thursday 22 April 2010 16:36:33 Thomas Leuxner wrote: > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 01:12:24PM +0200, Rainer Frey wrote: > > Do you define all valid recipients there (e.g. in you example virtual > > file lo...@domain.tld)? > > Yes. So a valid recipient must be in the p

Re: [Dovecot] best choice of user database file to work with postfix?

2010-04-22 Thread Rainer Frey
On Thursday 22 April 2010 15:34:40 Phil Howard wrote: > So what would local_recipient_maps look like in this case? As the suggested setup uses virtual_mailbox_domains for the mailboxes hosted by dovecot, it would be virtual_mailbox_maps. Alternatively one could define relay_domains, relay_tran

Re: [Dovecot] best choice of user database file to wor k with postfix?

2010-04-22 Thread Rainer Frey
Please honour the Reply-To header next time. Thanks. On Thursday 22 April 2010 11:42:01 Thomas Leuxner wrote: > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:18:09AM +0200, Rainer Frey wrote: > > What I don't see here at all (and neither in your Wiki Howto) is how > > Postfix determines the vali

Re: [Dovecot] best choice of user database file to work with postfix?

2010-04-22 Thread Rainer Frey
On Wednesday 21 April 2010 21:30:12 Thomas Leuxner wrote: > I'm running a setup that should be good enough for what you are trying to > achieve. All user information is stored in flat files per domain and you > may override per user settings individually: > > passdb { > args = username_format=%u

[Dovecot] Deliver and file system quota

2009-11-12 Thread Rainer Frey
Hi, what is the quota plugin for deliver supposed to do when using fs quota? With IMAP, and not using noenforcing, a user that is over Soft limit can't copy mails. With deliver, the mail is delivered normally. When hard limit is exceeded, there is an error "rejected: Not enough disk space", ju

Re: [Dovecot] v2.0 configuration parsing

2009-08-11 Thread Rainer Frey (Inxmail GmbH)
On Tuesday 11 August 2009 15:32:42 Matthijs Kooijman wrote: > > > 1) User logs in to imap from 192.168.0.1. What is foo's value? > > > > > > protocol imap { > > > remote_ip 192.168.0.0/16 { > > > foo = foo > > > } > > > } > > > remote_ip 192.168.0.0/24 { > > > foo = bar > > > } > > > > Th

Re: [Dovecot] v2.0 configuration parsing

2009-08-11 Thread Rainer Frey
On Monday 10 August 2009 19:57:53 Timo Sirainen wrote: > I'm trying to figure out how exactly v2.0 should be parsing > configuration files. The most annoying part is if it should always just > "use whatever comes first in config" or try some kind of a "use most > specific rule". I generally prefe

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot Versions and Debian

2009-07-27 Thread Rainer Frey
On Monday 27 July 2009 16:21:53 Stephan Bosch wrote: > > or Use any of the packages from: > > Dovecot v1.2 for Debian Testing (binary and source): > > > > deb http://xi.rename-it.nl/debian/ testing-auto/dovecot-1.2 main > > deb-src http://xi.rename-it.nl/debian/ testing-auto/dovecot-1.2 main > > -

Re: [Dovecot] user unknown with deliver

2009-07-16 Thread Rainer Frey
On Thursday 16 July 2009 15:38:25 Nikolay Shopik wrote: > Charles Marcus wrote: > > On 7/16/2009 9:16 AM, Nikolay Shopik wrote: > >> I'm using GMAIL style saving sent items automatically, so email don't > >> send twice to server. First when sending via smtp, second when MUA > >> saving it to IMAP s

[Dovecot] Location of sieve_global_dir setting

2009-06-30 Thread Rainer Frey
Hi, I'm a bit confused by the Wiki. Do the settings "sieve_dir" and "sieve_global_dir" belong to the lda or the plugin section (Dovecot 1.1.11)? Thanks Rainer

Re: [Dovecot] client certs with godaddy ssl cert

2008-09-28 Thread Rainer Frey (Inxmail GmbH)
want to consider though: your clients need to import the client cert you issue, and your root CA certificate as trusted cert. If *all your SSL/TLS clients* also get a client cert, you can also issue the server cert yourself, a commercial cert provides no extra value in that case. > Thanks R

Re: [Dovecot] Client with SSL client cert support?

2007-04-20 Thread Rainer Frey
On Thursday 19 April 2007 02:23:46 Peter Abrahamsen wrote: > Good day, all, > > I've gleaned that dovecot has support for verifying SSL client certs on > connect. What IMAP clients have people found that support sending a > specific SSL cert? I can't find this feature in Thunderbird, at least. Thu