[Dovecot] Running dovecot master processes across multiple IPs

2009-09-24 Thread Steven F Siirila
er be through the first address (10.1.1.1 in this example) or potentially across all of them in presumably a round-robin fashion. Do you see any problems with this? Has anyone done this? -- Steven F. Siirila Office: WBOB, 624J Internet Services E-ma

[Dovecot] Dovecot versions and index compatibility

2009-09-21 Thread Steven F Siirila
oth of the above extensively, but recently loaded up a server with 1.1.8 and found that the 'imap' process core dumps frequently, so before we pursue later versions we thought it would be best to downgrade to 1.1.6. -- Steven F. Siirila Office: WBOB, 62

[Dovecot] Dovecot master process

2008-11-11 Thread Steven F Siirila
help on some modern hardware)? Finally, would it be easy to delegate the task of logging to a dedicated process? We are still running Dovecot 1.0.0 at this time, on Solaris 10 servers. -- Steven F. Siirila Office: WBOB, 621F Internet Services E-mail

Re: [Dovecot] graceful failure when some folders are not available...

2007-10-23 Thread Steven F Siirila
On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 10:10:00PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 16:39 -0500, Steven F Siirila wrote: > > And in fact your tests (below) reproduced this. The problem with this is > > that if even one file or directory within the user's IMAP folder sp

Re: [Dovecot] graceful failure when some folders are not available...

2007-10-19 Thread Steven F Siirila
Did I miss a reply on this? We're considering modifying Dovecot, but would like opinions before going down the wrong path... On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 04:39:25PM -0500, Steven F Siirila wrote: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 04:28:20AM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-10-03

Re: [Dovecot] graceful failure when some folders are not available...

2007-10-08 Thread Steven F Siirila
error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. > [2007-10-06 04:24:48] > x status foo (messages) > x NO Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. > [2007-10-06 04:24:58] > > Or even if the mailbox is successfully opened and after that: > > x no

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot LDA munging INBOX access times?

2007-06-25 Thread Steven F Siirila
On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 01:24:46PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 14:07 -0500, Steven F Siirila wrote: > > > Hmm. I wonder how much of a timing window is left; this could be a viable > > > option for us. However, I would like to consider our future opti

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot LDA munging INBOX access times?

2007-06-15 Thread Steven F Siirila
OK, I have some more sane thoughts after we discussed our local situation. See inline comments. On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 10:51:02PM -0500, Steven F Siirila wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 06:22:45AM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 17:52 -0500, Steven F Siir

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot LDA munging INBOX access times?

2007-06-13 Thread Steven F Siirila
t those specific mailboxes (alerts in a > very large production environment that are still smtp based). We also have a very large production environment. Thanks for the ideas. -- Steven F. Siirila Office: Lind Hall, Room 130B Internet Services E-ma

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot LDA munging INBOX access times?

2007-06-13 Thread Steven F Siirila
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 06:22:45AM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 17:52 -0500, Steven F Siirila wrote: > > We are running Dovecot 1.0.0 using mbox format (currently in the midst > > of conversion from UW IMAP). We discovered today that the Dovecot LDA >

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot LDA munging INBOX access times?

2007-06-13 Thread Steven F Siirila
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 08:30:52PM -0400, John Peacock wrote: > Steven F Siirila wrote: > > We are running Dovecot 1.0.0 using mbox format (currently in the midst > > of conversion from UW IMAP). We discovered today that the Dovecot LDA > > is accessing the user's INBOX

[Dovecot] Dovecot LDA munging INBOX access times?

2007-06-13 Thread Steven F Siirila
that scenario?? Comments appreciated. -- Steven F. Siirila Office: Lind Hall, Room 130B Internet Services E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office of Information TechnologyVoice: (612) 626-0244 University of Minnesota Fax: (612) 626-7593

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot.org moves to a new server

2007-05-22 Thread Steven F Siirila
posting - so far so good... ;-) > > One thing I noticed is that reverse DNS isn't properly configured for > the new IP 82.118.211.50. This may trigger anti-spam measures at the > receiver's end... Indeed. (We noticed) :-\ -- Steven F. Siirila

Re: [Dovecot] message-of-the-day feature?

2007-04-24 Thread Steven F Siirila
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 06:41:28PM -0500, Ethan Sommer wrote: > Steven F Siirila wrote: > >On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 06:22:05PM +0200, Jakob Hirsch wrote: > > > >>Quoting Odhiambo WASHINGTON: > > >>You can do just that with dovecot, see > >>http://wik

Re: [Dovecot] message-of-the-day feature?

2007-04-19 Thread Steven F Siirila
. That's worth noting, but... What about getting notices out to those folks whose IMAP client stays connected (sometimes for days on end)? -- Steven F. Siirila Office: Lind Hall, Room 130B Internet Services E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office of Information TechnologyVoice: (612) 626-0244 University of Minnesota Fax: (612) 626-7593

[Dovecot] message-of-the-day feature?

2007-04-19 Thread Steven F Siirila
deliver it at that time via Dovecot LDA? -- Steven F. Siirila Office: Lind Hall, Room 130B Internet Services E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office of Information TechnologyVoice: (612) 626-0244 University of Minnesota Fax: (612) 626-7593

Re: [Dovecot] v1.0.0 released

2007-04-13 Thread Steven F Siirila
; http://dovecot.org/nightly/ contains now snapshots from CVS HEAD. It > already has tons of new features. I've been using it myself for half a > year, so it should be mostly stable too. I'll write a separate mail > about this later. -- Steven F. Siirila

Re: [Dovecot] Released 1.0.rc31

2007-04-09 Thread Steven F Siirila
x27;t exist, > create it. > - Convert plugin: Mailbox names weren't converted in subscription > list. RC31 is screaming for version 1 to be released: 31 == 1 binary. :) -- Steven F. Siirila Office: Lind Hall, Room 130B Internet Servic

Re: [Dovecot] assertion failed (1.0-rc27)

2007-03-28 Thread Steven F Siirila
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:38:59AM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 29.3.2007, at 1.10, Steven F Siirila wrote: > > >>Anyway if it happened repeatedly, it would be nice to get the > >>anonymized mbox and index files. See http://wiki.dovecot.org/ > >>MboxProblems &

Re: [Dovecot] assertion failed (1.0-rc27)

2007-03-28 Thread Steven F Siirila
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:38:59AM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 29.3.2007, at 1.10, Steven F Siirila wrote: > > >>Anyway if it happened repeatedly, it would be nice to get the > >>anonymized mbox and index files. See http://wiki.dovecot.org/ > >>MboxProblems &

Re: [Dovecot] assertion failed (1.0-rc27)

2007-03-28 Thread Steven F Siirila
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 10:24:40PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 28.3.2007, at 22.13, Steven F Siirila wrote: > > >Under Dovecot 1.0-rc27 on Solaris 10 we noticed this error today > >affecting > >one of our users repeatedly: > > > >Mar 28 14:02:01 myhost d

Re: [Dovecot] odd behavior with Dovecot LDA

2007-03-28 Thread Steven F Siirila
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 11:02:28PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: . . . > On 27.3.2007, at 22.40, Steven F Siirila wrote: > >For the second test, I created $HOME/.imap and $HOME/.imap/INBOX > >directories with the owner and group set to that of the user (just

[Dovecot] auth server refusing connections intermittently

2007-03-28 Thread Steven F Siirila
error messages there -- and there is only one dovecot-auth process there as well. Does this sound right? Also, how many times are these connections retried (and at what sleep interval, if any) before it gives up? -- Steven F. Siirila Office: Lind Hall, Room 130B Internet

Re: [Dovecot] odd behavior with Dovecot LDA

2007-03-28 Thread Steven F Siirila
rbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: pam args: session=yes * userdb: driver: passwd -- Steven F. Siirila Office: Lind Hall, Room 130B Internet Services E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office of Information TechnologyVoice: (612) 626-0244 University of Minnesota Fax: (612) 626-7593

[Dovecot] assertion failed (1.0-rc27)

2007-03-28 Thread Steven F Siirila
8 (imap) killed with signal 6 I have no idea what the user experienced, as we simply noticed this in the logs (which appear on our consoles, too). I hope this is enough information, as we do not run with core dumps enabled on our production servers. -- Steven F. Siirila O

Re: [Dovecot] odd behavior with Dovecot LDA

2007-03-28 Thread Steven F Siirila
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 11:02:28PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 27.3.2007, at 22.40, Steven F Siirila wrote: > > >For the first test, there was no $HOME/.imap directory at all. > >I received the vacation message, but the message which was supposed > >to be delivered l

Re: [Dovecot] Version numbering

2007-03-27 Thread Steven F Siirila
where: X is the major version (changes only for major feature updates), Y is the minor version (changes for minor feature updates), and Z is more or less a patch level. -- Steven F. Siirila Office: Lind Hall, Room 130B Internet Services E-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [Dovecot] proxy host specified as fqdn in userdb

2007-03-27 Thread Steven F Siirila
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 01:58:34AM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 17:27 -0500, Steven F Siirila wrote: > > > > I don't know about that, but what I'm asking is.. how many people > > are allowing IMAP/POP3 connections (with authentication via us

Re: [Dovecot] proxy host specified as fqdn in userdb

2007-03-27 Thread Steven F Siirila
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 11:28:54PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 27.3.2007, at 3.35, Steven F Siirila wrote: > > >>The problem with this is that it would require adding asynchronous > >>DNS > >>library to Dovecot, or alternatively hoping that your DNS serv

[Dovecot] odd behavior with Dovecot LDA

2007-03-27 Thread Steven F Siirila
t: Segmentation Fault It appears that Dovecot LDA assumes that if .imap/FOLDERNAME exists that the index files must also exist.. I wonder what other assumptions might cause segfaults. -- Steven F. Siirila Office: Lind Hall, Room 130B Internet Services

Re: [Dovecot] proxy host specified as fqdn in userdb

2007-03-26 Thread Steven F Siirila
down (and hanging when it is). I don't really want to implement > the latter, and adding async DNS library just for proxying which is used > by very few people seems a bit bloaty. If we require SSL/TLS connections, are we not always "proxying" connections? if that is true,

[Dovecot] Odd error message

2007-03-26 Thread Steven F Siirila
15:13:10 myhostname dovecot: child (login) killed with signal 11 What can I do to further diagnose this problem? -- Steven F. Siirila Office: Lind Hall, Room 130B Internet Services E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office of Information Technology

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot LDA issues

2007-03-25 Thread Steven F Siirila
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 03:23:12AM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 13:08 -0500, Steven F Siirila wrote: > > We've seen two issues come up with Dovecot LDA, both of which have > > caused us problems: > > > > 1) If the user's home directo

[Dovecot] Dovecot LDA issues

2007-03-23 Thread Steven F Siirila
quota in /home, neither deliver nor any other Dovecot process should attempt to update them, and instead issue WARNING messages. This allows the e-mail to be delivered instead of requeued, or worse yet, rejected. Index files are supposed to make things perform better, not worse, in ALL

Re: [Dovecot] mail looping

2007-03-21 Thread Steven F Siirila
I have a handle on this now; it is a Postfix issue... On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 01:50:48PM -0500, Steven F Siirila wrote: > We are running Postfix 2.3.3 and Dovecot 1.0-RC27 on a Solaris 10 server. > We use the Dovecot LDA for local delivery. Problems arise with looping mail > whenever

Re: [Dovecot] Index files in .imap directory

2007-03-21 Thread Steven F Siirila
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:57:37PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 14:38 -0500, Steven F Siirila wrote: > > > A few RC releases ago we had a problem where a user's restored home > > directory > > contained a .imap folder either from a previous RC

[Dovecot] mail looping

2007-03-21 Thread Steven F Siirila
l_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv namespace: type: private separator: / location: mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u inbox: yes hidden: yes auth default: username_format: %Lu verbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: pam args: session=yes * userdb:

[Dovecot] Index files in .imap directory

2007-03-19 Thread Steven F Siirila
but rather have Dovecot be smart about when to simply re-create them if it detects something it does not like about them. -- Steven F. Siirila Office: Lind Hall, Room 130B Internet Services E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office of Information Technology

[Dovecot] connection refused

2007-03-18 Thread Steven F Siirila
refused connections at reboot will fix these. My question is: what do clients see when this situation arises? Is it transparent, or does the client/user end up having to re-connect? -- Steven F. Siirila Office: Lind Hall, Room 130B Internet Services

[Dovecot] unable to connect to auth server

2007-03-16 Thread Steven F Siirila
driver: pam args: session=yes * userdb: driver: passwd -- Steven F. Siirila Office: Lind Hall, Room 130B Internet Services E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office of Information TechnologyVoice: (612) 626-0244 University of Minnesota Fax: (612) 626-7593