Re: [Dovecot] mail spool filesystem

On 8/17/11 7:42 AM, Adrian Ulrich wrote: >> I read that XFS is a good choice, but is not >> too reliable... > > Are you using Maildir or MBOX? > > In any case: XFS would be my last choice: > > XFS is nice if you are working with large files (> 2GB), but > for E-Mail i'd stick with ext3 (or mayb

Re: [Dovecot] Question about "slow" storage but fast cpus, plenty of ram and dovecot

On 12/12/2010 00:49, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Since Javier is looking for ways to decrease I/O load on the SAN, not > necessarily increase Dovecot performance, I think putting the index > files on a ramdisk is best thing to try first. It may not be a silver > bullet. If he's still got spare memo

Re: [Dovecot] nfs director

On 8/31/2010 10:22, Ariel Biener wrote: > > Oh, and Timo, I don't think we are just "a couple of NFS users". Maildir > and NFS are not as uncommon as > you'd think, even in very large installations. > NFS with maildir has been the gold standard for a long time, whether the NFS server be boxes

Re: [Dovecot] Maildir over NFS

On 8/9/10 5:31 AM, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 12:18 +0200, Edgar Fuß wrote: >>> The NFS server sits in user space. >> Oops? I don't know what Linux does, but with BSD, it has always been >> in-kernel. > > Historically there was a user-space NFS-daemon (and can very probably

Re: [Dovecot] Maildir over NFS

On 8/6/2010 12:31, CJ Keist wrote: > > So question I have for the dovecot team, does running Maildir over NFS > work well? Or would you recommend that all user mail folders be stored > locally on the mail server when using Maildir? > > We have about 3400 users, doing about 30k mail deliveries da

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot evaluation on a 30 gb mailbox

On 6/23/2010 15:41, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Seth Mattinen put forth on 6/23/2010 4:30 PM: > >> When using SquirrelMail, make sure these settings are 'true': >> >> Allow server thread sort : true >> Allow server-side sorting: true >> >>

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot evaluation on a 30 gb mailbox

On 6/23/2010 15:41, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Seth Mattinen put forth on 6/23/2010 4:30 PM: > >> When using SquirrelMail, make sure these settings are 'true': >> >> Allow server thread sort : true >> Allow server-side sorting: true >> >>

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot evaluation on a 30 gb mailbox

On 6/23/2010 12:27, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > A.L.E.C put forth on 6/23/2010 6:51 AM: >> On 23.06.2010 13:22, Rajesh M wrote: >> >>> did the tests once again on this large email box >> >> First of all, are you using one client app or many? Make sure it's not >> the client issue. You should also enable

Re: [Dovecot] Sieve GUI

On 6/1/10 10:24 AM, Phil Howard wrote: > On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 13:07, Gerhard Waldemair wrote: >>> Is there à GUI for sieve. >>> >>> I don't have installed Squrielmail, but won't like to manage the Rules per >>> ssh > > I would hope there would be a way to put Sieve scripts in place via > IMAP i

Re: [Dovecot] Could use some help setting Dovecot up for the first time

On 3/7/2010 12:35, joe wrote: > That's what i thought too but for the life of me i cannot figure out > what is causing it. I figured i must have missed something along the > way. I'm on my 5th or so time installing everything (within a jail), so > hopefully i get it right this time! > > Wish me lu

Re: [Dovecot] Anyone successfully setup Continous Backup of mailboxes using rsync ?

On 1/28/10 12:07 AM, CoolAtt NNA wrote: > > Hi All.. > > Am working on continous backup of mailboxes using rsync(for e.g by running > rsync every 2 min) > > Things gets more complicated when users create Subfolders in INBOX , SENT , > etc.. How? > If anyone among you did that plz guide & ad

Re: [Dovecot] Released Pigeonhole Sieve v0.1.14 and ManageSieve v0.11.10 for Dovecot v1.2.9

Stephan Bosch wrote: > Seth Mattinen wrote: >> Stephan Bosch wrote: >>> Hello Dovecot users, >>> >>> Due to personal matters I haven't had time to do anything in the last >>> few weeks. Before that I provided some pre-releases and since nobody

Re: [Dovecot] Released Pigeonhole Sieve v0.1.14 and ManageSieve v0.11.10 for Dovecot v1.2.9

Stephan Bosch wrote: > Hello Dovecot users, > > Due to personal matters I haven't had time to do anything in the last > few weeks. Before that I provided some pre-releases and since nobody > indicated problems with those, I release them definitively now. I hope > the shit storm has blown over, so

Re: [Dovecot] Vacation message with Sieve

Rene Bakkum wrote: I don't like catch-all addresses either, and I have almost never used them myself. But our customers seems to like them sometimes, so I can't ignore their wishes. You can't do it with Sieve 'vacation'. Listing the exact address is required. ~Seth

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] DRBD

Rodolfo Gonzalez Gonzalez wrote: Hello all, has someone worked with DRBD (http://www.drbd.org) for HA of mail storage? if so, does it have stability issues? comments and experiences are thanked :) Look for thread "Dovecot + DRBD/GFS mailstore" starting 6/5/2009 on this list. ~Seth

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

Thomas Harold wrote: > On 11/20/2009 1:51 PM, Thomas Berezansky wrote: >> Personally, I am using Horde (http://www.horde.org/) at work (this >> address) and Outlook 2007 at home (largely due to getting freaky >> attachments I need to open on a regular basis that only Microsoft mail >> clients seem

Re: [Dovecot] Web-Interface for Dovecot-Sieve?

Steffen Kaiser wrote: > On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Seth Mattinen wrote: > >>>>> is there anywhere a web-interface for managing sieve-filters with >>>>> dovecot? >>> >>>> Beware that dovecot managesieve does not have any kind of security

Re: [Dovecot] Web-Interface for Dovecot-Sieve?

Steffen Kaiser wrote: > On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Seth Mattinen wrote: > >>> is there anywhere a web-interface for managing sieve-filters with >>> dovecot? > >> Beware that dovecot managesieve does not have any kind of security to >> prevent abuse if you open

Re: [Dovecot] Web-Interface for Dovecot-Sieve?

Andrew Schulman wrote: > > Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but IIRC the managesieve interfaces > of Roundcube and Thunderbird only allow you to choose between existing > sieve scripts that are already available through the managesieve server. > They *don't* provide an interface for constru

Re: [Dovecot] plugin cmusieve not found

juan carlos wrote: > # ls -l /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 nov 12 21:20 lib01_acl_plugin.so > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 nov 12 21:20 lib10_quota_plugin.so > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 nov 12 21:20 lib11_trash_plugin.so > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 nov 12 21:20 lib20_autocre

Re: [Dovecot] Web-Interface for Dovecot-Sieve?

Daniel Spannbauer wrote: > Hello, > > is there anywhere a web-interface for managing sieve-filters with dovecot? > Beware that dovecot managesieve does not have any kind of security to prevent abuse if you open it to the outside world. ~Seth

Re: [Dovecot] Problem with stored procedure

Fcuk F wrote: Hi Timo/all I am trying to use stored procedure for password query when it try to connect i get authenticated only for the first user after that for subsequent user it gives me this error. Password query failed: Commands out of sync; you can't run this command now That message

Re: [Dovecot] HA Dovecot Config?

Eric Rostetter wrote: > > For IMAP to be truely HA, you will need shared storage of some sort. > > > You can "emulate" a SAN with something like DRBD if budget doesn't allow a > real SAN (that is what I do). > I can vouch for DRBD too. It works quite well. ~Seth

Re: [Dovecot] simple steps with sieve

Gavin Hamill wrote: > On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 17:21 +0200, Pascal Volk wrote: > >> You are missing the 'addresses:' list in your vacation script. See >> http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve#Vacation_auto-reply-1 for more details. > > Interesting; thank you. > > I can confirm that it works fine when I

Re: [Dovecot] Binary locations

Ed W wrote: > Timo Sirainen wrote: >> Where do you think the following binaries should be installed to? The >> possible locations are: >> >> - bin/ >> - sbin/ >> > > Should these not be /usr/bin and /usr/sbin ? > > I believe that /bin and /sbin are for system essentials and /usr/bin for > pa

Re: [Dovecot] Question about the pop3 feature "leave messages on server for a certain period of time"

Δημήτριος Καραπιπέρης wrote: > O/H Timo Sirainen έγραψε: >> On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 11:57 +0300, Δημήτριος Καραπιπέρης wrote: >> >>> I am missing something on the the pop3 "leave messages" rationale. >>> >>> Although the UIDL feature solves for the MUA the problem "whch mails >>> should be downloa

Re: [Dovecot] log for each user

Thomas G. Lau wrote: > Dear Pascal, > > rawlog does not include timestamp on the log, how is it possible to be > done, also, is it possible to combine in, out log into one? so that we > could see the whole picture > Syslog. ~Seth

Re: [Dovecot] Scalability plans: Abstract out filesystem and make it someone else's problem

Ed W wrote: > > Actually I use maildir, but apart from delete performance which is > usually rare, mailbox seems better for nearly all use patterns > > Seems like if it were possible to "solve" delete performance then > mailbox becomes the preferred choice for many requirements (also lets > solve

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot Versions and Debian

Mario Antonio wrote: Seth, How do you deal with new important patches? Do you patch the source and then rebuild the packages? Is it safe or better just wait until SID release the new source? I just wait for it to show up in sid. You could also apply patches yourself and rebuild, either wa

Re: [Dovecot] Scalability plans: Abstract out filesystem and make it someone else's problem

Eric Jon Rostetter wrote: > Quoting Seth Mattinen : > >> Queue directories and clusters don't >> mix well, but a read-heavy maildir/dbox environment shouldn't suffer the >> same problem. > > Why don't queue directories and clusters mix well? Is

Re: [Dovecot] Scalability plans: Abstract out filesystem and make it someone else's problem

Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Aug 11, 2009, at 2:16 AM, Seth Mattinen wrote: > >>> Show me a clustered filesystem that can guarantee that each file is >>> stored in at least 3 different data centers and can scale linearly by >>> simply adding more servers (l

Re: [Dovecot] Scalability plans: Abstract out filesystem and make it someone else's problem

Robert Schetterer wrote: > Timo Sirainen schrieb: >> On Aug 11, 2009, at 12:41 AM, Seth Mattinen wrote: >> >>>> Nothing forces you to switch from maildir, if you're happy with it :) >>>> But if you want to support millions of users, it's simpler t

Re: [Dovecot] Scalability plans: Abstract out filesystem and make it someone else's problem

Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Aug 11, 2009, at 12:41 AM, Seth Mattinen wrote: > >>> Nothing forces you to switch from maildir, if you're happy with it :) >>> But if you want to support millions of users, it's simpler to distribute >>> the storage and disk I/

Re: [Dovecot] Scalability plans: Abstract out filesystem and make it someone else's problem

Curtis Maloney wrote: > Seth Mattinen wrote: >> Ick, some people (myself included) hate the idea of storing mail in a >> database versus simple and almost impossible to screw up plain text >> files of maildir. Cyrus already does the whole mail-in-database thing. > >

Re: [Dovecot] Scalability plans: Abstract out filesystem and make it someone else's problem

Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 14:33 -0700, Seth Mattinen wrote: >> Timo Sirainen wrote: >>> This is something I figured out a few months ago, mainly because this >>> one guy at work (hi, Stu) kept telling me my multi-master replication >>> plan su

Re: [Dovecot] Scalability plans: Abstract out filesystem and make it someone else's problem

Timo Sirainen wrote: This is something I figured out a few months ago, mainly because this one guy at work (hi, Stu) kept telling me my multi-master replication plan sucked and we should use some existing scalable database. (I guess it didn't go exactly like that, but that's the result anyway.)

Re: [Dovecot] High Availability strategies

Ed W wrote: > I think there is a whitepaper from Dovecot's current main sponsor > (before they were called Rackspace) which described their architecture > using pairs of servers and DRBD between them. Each server is moderately > loaded and active. If one server fails then half the users don't not

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot Versions and Debian

Mario Antonio wrote: > If you want to run Dovecot on Debian Lenny for a Production System (with > Fast Upgrade System for Security Patches), > What would you recommend? > Stick to the current port with Dovecot Version 1.0.15 (1:1.0.15-2.3) > Use Backports Version 1.1.13 (1:1.1.13-2~bpo50+1) > Do y

Re: [Dovecot] Several errors

FraNL wrote: And how do I implement that patch? Grab the source, do a "patch -P0 < file" and recompile. ~Seth

Re: [Dovecot] High Availability strategies

Joseba Torre wrote: > Hi, > > we have a medium setup (8000 pop and imap users using almost every > available client, 800GB of stored mails using maildir on a Celerra NFS > server, with index files on local disks, and procmail for local > delivery), being served by a Dell PowerEdge 2850 (2GB RAM

Re: [Dovecot] RFC: Different quota for dovecot and deliver

Philipp Marek wrote: > Hello Timo! > > On Montag, 20. Juli 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote: >> On Jul 20, 2009, at 1:56 AM, Philipp Marek wrote: >>> Are placeholders like "%s", "%n" etc. listed anywhere? >> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Variables > Thank you very much for your quick answer! > > BTW: Google g

Re: [Dovecot] dsync - one or two ways?

Timo Sirainen wrote: On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 12:06 -0700, Seth Mattinen wrote: So is this targeted as a kind of replication solution then? Either continuous replication or just one-off user moves/conversions without locking the mailbox and without losing changes done during the move/conversion

Re: [Dovecot] dsync - one or two ways?

Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 11:59 -0700, Seth Mattinen wrote: >>> Now, the question is: Does anyone want dsync to only sync changes from >>> source to destination, instead of doing a full two-way sync? I think in >>> typical cases where you'd thi

Re: [Dovecot] dsync - one or two ways?

Timo Sirainen wrote: > dsync in Dovecot v2.0 tree is a new utility for syncing a mailbox in two > locations. Some things it can be used for: > > - Initially transfer a mailbox to another server via SSH > - A faster sync done to an existing mailbox, sending only changes > - A superfast sync base

Re: [Dovecot] E-Mail Encryption

Tom Hendrikx wrote: > Thomas schreef: >> Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: >>> On Wednesday 15 of July 2009, Patrick Domack wrote: The only benefit this would being, is email being saved on the server would be encrypted. Otherwise it offers no protection. I guess if you paranoid that

Re: [Dovecot] Possible fix to an old Thunderbird related problem

Marc Perkel wrote: > > > Charles Marcus wrote: >> On 7/12/2009 12:23 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: >> >>> I spoke too soon. Thunderbird is still broken. And it's really >>> frustrating. >>> >> >> I'm sure Timo and others (myself included) would like more details... >> >> *What* is broken? >> >> D

Re: [Dovecot] Directory Layout Performance

to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 11:48:04AM -0700, Seth Mattinen wrote: >> Mario Antonio Garcia wrote: >>> From a performance perspective: > > [...] > >> I use a filesystem that handles this better than ext3 such as XFS or Reiser. > > E

Re: [Dovecot] Directory Layout Performance

Mario Antonio Garcia wrote: > From a performance perspective: > Which Directory layout is better: > 1. All mailboxes are stored in a single directory and prefixed with a dot > or > 2. Maildirs using physical directories, such as: Maildir/folder/subfolder/ > > It looks like the second option -- Fil

Re: [Dovecot] quota.

Mauro wrote: 2009/6/17 Mauro : Yes, for now I've set a global quota. Perhaps I have to delete maildirsize file for all the accounts? I guess you could try that. It works now, thank you. Perhaps maildirsize files format were corrupted. I am disappointed that the new debian stable has dovecot

Re: [Dovecot] Lost sub-mailboxes - not showing after upgrading to Dovecot from Courier-IMAP

James Brown wrote: > Last night we migrated from Courier-IMAP to Dovecot 1.2RC5 and all seems > to work fairly well, but I seem to have lost all my mailboxes apart from > INBOX. The maildirs are all on the HD in the correct place > (/usr/local/virtual/bordo.com.au/jlbrown): > > > Any idea how to

Re: [Dovecot] Help please- Post - Login Script--- Migration

Ashraf wrote: > Seth, I have tried to use most of them but whichever i use its creating a > folder and then its creating the dovecot-uidlist and rest of the files. > please advice. > The variable ${HOME} - in your script, not in the mail_executable setting - should give you what you want. ~Seth

Re: [Dovecot] Help please- Post - Login Script--- Migration

Ashraf wrote: > Once the script is executed its executing the binary as a last step. > Reference http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/Courier > > You can also convert each user as they log in for the first time, using > PostLoginScripting with a > script

Re: [Dovecot] Help please- Post - Login Script--- Migration

Ashraf wrote: > Hi all > I am in the process of migrating Courier to Dovecot, am using > courier-dovecot-migrate.plit > works fine. I want to migrate each user as they login using post-login > script (As i have huge no of users). We are usi

Re: [Dovecot] Clustering dovecot?

dove...@corwyn.net wrote: > At 02:00 PM 5/27/2009, Seth Mattinen wrote: >> You're going to need something in front of the two servers to abstract >> the connections (another poster recommended ultramonkey) if you want >> them both to be serviced by the same IP address. M

Re: [Dovecot] Clustering dovecot?

dove...@corwyn.net wrote: > At 01:17 PM 5/27/2009, Seth Mattinen wrote: >> You're probably looking for Dovecot replication, which as far as I'm >> aware, has not made itself known in a functional form yet. I really want >> to see master/master replication. >

Re: [Dovecot] Clustering dovecot?

dove...@corwyn.net wrote: > > > > Currently I have a mail server running postfix and dovecot with users in > mysql. I have Outlook (blich) clients checking IMAP mail on the server. > I'd like to build some fault-tolerance into that system in case I have > hardware failure. > > I've read through

Re: [Dovecot] offlineimap with dovecot and sieve

Dieter Faulbaum wrote: > I have a dumb question, is it possible to use this combination: > > Synchronising a remote IMAP-server and a local dovecot-IMAP-server by > offlineimap (with both types = IMAP), which works very well. > But it seems, that my sieve-scripts on the local dovecot server are no

Re: [Dovecot] How to run Dovecot as IMAP Proxy?

V S Rao wrote: > Thanks for the many responses and views. > > I have taken RH support for my mail server only and so have to ensure they > support me. So am going with their recommended version which is 0.99.x. > > Now on the webmail I have migrated to RHEL 5.3 and the dovecot being used > ther

Re: [Dovecot] How to run Dovecot as IMAP Proxy?

Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 11:47 -0700, Seth Mattinen wrote: >> Yes, that too. My point was not to judge Dovecot's performance based on >> a 0.99 version. ;) I've successfully used several versions of dovecot >> 1.1.x with imapproxyd and IMAP-on

Re: [Dovecot] How to run Dovecot as IMAP Proxy?

Scott Silva wrote: > on 5-21-2009 11:33 AM Seth Mattinen spake the following: >> V S Rao wrote: >>> Hi Timo, >>> >>> Thanks for the response. Apologize, but my responses are going to be a bit >>> lengthy. >>> >>>> I have migrated f

Re: [Dovecot] How to run Dovecot as IMAP Proxy?

V S Rao wrote: > Hi Timo, > > Thanks for the response. Apologize, but my responses are going to be a bit > lengthy. > >> I have migrated from uw-imap to Dovecot for POP3 & IMAP service. I run >> webmail using squirrelmail. When running uw-imap I used to run >> up.imapproxyd on the webmail server

Re: [Dovecot] ext3/ext4 performance issue

Matthijs Kooijman wrote: > Hi Scott, > >> One could always run the mailstore on LVM and then you could snapshot the >> mount and then fsck it while still technically in use. It would probably slow >> down the filesystem, but it is still live. > Uhm, and then you have a nice and fsck'd snapshot, bu

[Dovecot] Filesystems (was Re: Migration questions...)

Richard Hobbs wrote: > > Trouble is... i've been googling this as well, just now, and loads of > people say XFS has the better performance, but loads of other people say > ReiserFS has the better performance. It starts to become a religious argument at some point. > We have battery backed up RAI

Re: [Dovecot] Migration questions...

Richard Hobbs wrote: > Seth Mattinen wrote: >> Phillip Macey wrote: >>> On 14/05/2009 5:11 PM, Steffen Kaiser wrote: >>>> On Wed, 13 May 2009, Richard Hobbs wrote: >>>>> The main complaint we have from users is that their IMAP Inbox, with >>>&g

Re: [Dovecot] Migration questions...

Richard Hobbs wrote: > Curtis Maloney wrote: >> Phillip Macey wrote: Oh, we serve Maildir via Dovecot IMAP and 5000 messages per folder are a wimp. Problems start if the user: >>> We are having some performancec issues on our server at the moment - >>> all I can put it down to is the larg

Re: [Dovecot] Migration questions...

Phillip Macey wrote: > On 14/05/2009 5:11 PM, Steffen Kaiser wrote: >> On Wed, 13 May 2009, Richard Hobbs wrote: >>> The main complaint we have from users is that their IMAP Inbox, with >>> 5000 emails in it takes ages to appear, and no amount of coaxing will >>> convince them to split their inbox

Re: [Dovecot] Migration questions...

Richard Hobbs wrote: > > That's also good to know... i like to do a job right instead of relying > on faster hardware, as i'm sure you all do too, but it's good to know > that if i make one or two "non-optimal" choices along the way, it'll > probably be lightning fast anyway! > > The main complai

Re: [Dovecot] Unable To Send Mail

Carlos Williams wrote: > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: >> Dovecot does not speak SMTP to other mail servers, unless you mean "send >> mail" in a different sense than I'm used to. >> >> ~Seth > > I mean that I can send (SMP

Re: [Dovecot] Unable To Send Mail

Carlos Williams wrote: > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: >> Try the postfix user list. >> >> http://www.postfix.org/lists.html > > I did and was told this appears to be a Dovecot config issues since > the MTA (Postfix) is sending mail just f

Re: [Dovecot] Unable To Send Mail

Try the postfix user list. http://www.postfix.org/lists.html

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot -> Gmail (via POP Mail Fetcher)

Neil wrote: > imapsync is failing for me, with very odd errors; mostly "failure to append > message to folder", or some such... And unlike most of the failures with > imapsync, it didn't just error out (and give me the message with "N messages > failed."), it just flat out crashes (it's outputting

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot -> Gmail (via POP Mail Fetcher)

Rick Romero wrote: > > Try imapsync - it seems to work fairly well with Gmail, except folders > are screwy. > freshmeat.net/projects/imapsync/ > That's because gmail doesn't implement folders, they use "labels". ~Seth

Re: [Dovecot] For the record: Postfix+Spamassassin+ClamAV+Dovecot

James Butler wrote: > Postfix 2.5.5 > SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (under Perl 5.10.0) > ClamAV 0.95.1 > Dovecot 1.2.rc2 > > works fine on Fedora 10. > > Installed Dovecot and ClamAV from source and everything else using yum. > > I'm using the ClamAV plugin for Spamassassin: > http://wiki.apache.org/spam

Re: [Dovecot] multiple sql servers - loadbalancing and failover

Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: > On Friday 27 of March 2009, Seth Mattinen wrote: >> Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: >>> On Friday 27 of March 2009, Xueron Nee wrote: >>>> You can try mysql-proxy: >>>> >>>> http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql-proxy/

Re: [Dovecot] multiple sql servers - loadbalancing and failover

Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: > On Friday 27 of March 2009, Xueron Nee wrote: >> You can try mysql-proxy: >> >> http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql-proxy/index.html > > This introduces single point of failure. > Plus use of heartbeat, HA, etc.

Re: [Dovecot] multiple sql servers - loadbalancing and failover

Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: > On Friday 27 of March 2009, Xueron Nee wrote: >> You can try mysql-proxy: >> >> http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql-proxy/index.html > > This introduces single point of failure. > http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQL_Proxy#Load_Balancing_.26_Failover

Re: [Dovecot] Preventing IMAP folder deletion?

Seth Mattinen wrote: > dove...@corwyn.net wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >> I'm running postfix with dovecot using mysql for user accounts, with >> Outlook being used as the IMAP mail client. I'm using a mail delimiter >> ("+") and mail automatica

Re: [Dovecot] Preventing IMAP folder deletion?

dove...@corwyn.net wrote: > > > Hi! > > I'm running postfix with dovecot using mysql for user accounts, with > Outlook being used as the IMAP mail client. I'm using a mail delimiter > ("+") and mail automatically goes to a Spam folder as part of spam > filtering with amavisd and spam assassin.

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot with IMAP and POP3 mixed

Bill Cole wrote: > Andreas Meyer wrote, On 3/21/09 11:16 AM: >> Hello! >> >> I tried to setup dovecot to work with IMAP and POP3 but when I connect >> with Squirrelmail, I get an error saying CREATE "INBOX.Sent" >> reason: Mailbox doesn't allow inferior mailboxes > > That's for user7, right? > >

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot LDA and "undeliverable" emails

Kat Wisnosky wrote: > Timo wrote: > >> So Postfix delivers bounces to everyone by calling Dovecot LDA >> separately for each bounce? Looks like a Postfix configuration problem >> to me. > > I should have been more specific... because we'd also changed domain > names at the time we moved over to u

Re: [Dovecot] General approach question - am I doing this the right way?

Alan Bates wrote: > Sure - I looked at sieve, but as i understood it, i'm bypassing any LDA > stage, using getmail to deliver direct to the maildir. > > i suppose i could use getmail to deliver to a holding maildir, then use an > LDA to filter and deliver that mail... > Or procmail: :0: * ^X-Sp

Re: [Dovecot] General approach question - am I doing this the right way?

Alan Bates wrote: > Quick outline of my current working setup: > > I'm running dovecot 1.0.5 as an IMAP mail server on my ubuntu home server, > which i connect to with my phone and several other machines to check my mail > etc. > > i use getmail to collect mail from my various pop accounts. getma

Re: [Dovecot] I'm the beginner and I want some help

Wei Da wrote: > Hello, > I'm a software programmer and I work for a software corporation. We worked > on dovecot for a while. We want to add some new functions to dovecot. For > example, the mail stored on Mail-Server is plaintext, so we want to make it > encrypted. As the documentation was not too

Re: [Dovecot] problems with dotlock

Mark Hedges wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote: >> OK, so core dumps are enabled, but for some reason they >> don't get written. There are really only two possibilities >> then: >> >> a) You don't really have mail_drop_priv_before_exec=yes. >> You could verify this with dovecot -n

Re: [Dovecot] exim4 + dovecot + SquirrelMail virtualhosted on Debian

Tim Legg wrote: > Hello, > > I have a Debian machine that is virtual-hosting 6 domains with exim4. I > finally got exim4 working well enough where I can send and receive mail using > the mail command on my machine. I would eventually like to have SquirrelMail > (which requires IMAP) working o

Re: [Dovecot] GUI/WUI for creating (common) sieve scripts?

Peter Lindgren wrote: > Roderick A. Anderson skrev: >> Anyone aware of a Web User Interface or GUI to allow users to create >> simple/common-type sieve scripts? >> So before I go invent this wheel I'd like to know what others are doing? > > For Thunderbird, there's a plugin (I haven't tested): >

Re: [Dovecot] unkillable imap process(es) with high CPU-usage

Timo Sirainen wrote: On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 12:10 -0700, Gene Steinberg wrote: This is sounding similar to the problem I have with my setup: 1. High CPU usage. 2. Can't kill IMAP. kill -9 doesn't work for imap processes? You didn't mention this before. I'm using CentOS 5.2 64-bit version wi

Re: [Dovecot] Production server migration from mbox to maildir ( need advice )

Proskurin Kirill wrote: > Frank Bonnet wrote: >>> I use Debian amd64 with maildir. It works. Nothing really to say about >>> it. It's never given me any trouble and nobody ever complains about >>> performance. Easy to restore specific messages from backups when >>> customers accidentally delete mes

Re: [Dovecot] Production server migration from mbox to maildir ( need advice )

Frank Bonnet wrote: > Hello > > I'm going to change the raid array of my mailhub in fews days/weeks and I > wonder if it would be a good idea to take the opportunity of this migration > to also change the storage method from mailbox to maildir. > > I've never used maildir on my production server

Re: [Dovecot] delivering to folder based on recipient_delimiter?

dove...@corwyn.net wrote: > > > > I'm currently running postfix + dovecot, with virtual users > > In postfix I have set recipient_delimiter = + so that postfix accepts > mail for u...@example.com, user+...@example.com, and > user+s...@example.com all deliver to inbox. > > what I would like is

Re: [Dovecot] dbox redesign

Timo Sirainen wrote: > This is about how to implement multiple msgs/file dbox format. The > current v1.1's one msg/file design would stay pretty much the same and > it would be compatible with this new design. > Out of curiosity, what's the advantage to going to multiple messages per file? Wouldn

Re: [Dovecot] Replication status

Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 03:49 -0800, Asheesh Laroia wrote: >> I remember last year we discussed Dovecot replication a bit on this list, >> e.g. http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2008-May/030446.html . >> >> Has there been any development related to this, and can I help at al

Re: [Dovecot] pop3_lock_session question

Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 14:55 -0800, Seth Mattinen wrote: >> Timo Sirainen wrote: >>> On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 13:23 -0800, Seth Mattinen wrote: >>>> Like imapproxy which holds the connection for subsequent requests to >>>> avoid the shor

Re: [Dovecot] pop3_lock_session question

Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 13:23 -0800, Seth Mattinen wrote: >> Like imapproxy which holds the connection for subsequent requests to >> avoid the short-lived HTTP connection issue. I certainly recommend it >> for squirrelmail installations since squirr

Re: [Dovecot] pop3_lock_session question

Justin Krejci wrote: >>> Could it be some (older?) webmail clients that use pop3 instead of imap? >> I wouldn't expect a webmail client to hold a pop3 connection open >> across multiple web requests. We have standard webmail clients >> available for customer use, but they use IMAP. With the frequ

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot optimisation

Proskurin Kirill wrote: Steffen Kaiser пишет: Does these problems occure all the time, e.g. if you restart the Dovecot demon and there are just a bunch of users on it. After restart - it work for some time, but it is just because no all connect to it again. Do you have a file descriptor lim

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot discards mail over quota

Charles Marcus wrote: On 1/20/2009, Seth Mattinen (se...@rollernet.us) wrote: It's simply a fact these days that people find backscatter and misdirected bounces annoying. In many cases they end up at a forged address that had nothing to do with the original transaction. A well be

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot discards mail over quota

It's simply a fact these days that people find backscatter and misdirected bounces annoying. In many cases they end up at a forged address that had nothing to do with the original transaction. A well behaved receiver will make decisions during the SMTP transactions with appropriate response cod

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot optimisation

Proskurin Kirill wrote: Timo Sirainen wrote: On Jan 20, 2009, at 6:05 AM, Proskurin Kirill wrote: But dovecot -n don`t show things like a login_max_processes_count and other thing what I think must be a bootle neck. It doesn't show it, because you're using the default value for it. Anyway i

Re: [Dovecot] deliver rejection bounces

Charles Marcus wrote: On 1/19/2009 11:51 AM, Seth Mattinen wrote: http://vda.sourceforge.net/ Just realize using this patch will void the postfix warranty (you won't get much help on the postfix list)... I've never personally used it so i can't vouch for it (I prefer usi

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