Re: [Dovecot] Using Amazon S3 storage for Maildir ?

2011-12-29 Thread William Blunn
On 20/12/2011 05:29, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 19.12.2011, at 19.35, Forrest Aldrich wrote: I wonder if anyone has tried using an IMAP server with Amazon S3 as a backend. There would be many factors to consider (speed, etc). However, moreso, I don't know that Maildir(++) would support multi

Re: [Dovecot] Upgrade/Migration

2011-12-29 Thread William Blunn
On 23/12/2011 19:20, sottile...@rfx.it wrote: New box (supposed): CentOS 6.x (32/64 bit ? ), dovecot 2.04, mbox format Any hints/comment appreciated ;-) Don't use Dovecot 2.0.4, even if your distro tries to tempt you into doing so by including such a version. Whilst it looks like a stable

Re: [Dovecot] mbox, hierarchical folders/folders and IMAP

2011-12-29 Thread William Blunn
On 24/12/2011 10:31, Stan Hoeppner wrote: With mbox storage, an IMAP FOLDER contains only sub folders or it contains only messages. It CANNOT contain BOTH. Dovecot can store both folders and messages in a folder, under mbox. See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MboxChildFolders Bill

Re: [Dovecot] Ubuntu package for dovecot 2.0.x from debian package

2011-07-23 Thread William Blunn
On 23/07/2011 10:16, Robert Schetterer wrote: mkdir /usr/src/dovecot_2.0.13 cd /usr/src/dovecot_2.0.13 download i.e wget ... dovecot_2.0.13-0~auto+24_amd64.changes wget dovecot_2.0.13-0~auto+24.debian.tar.gz wget dovecot_2.0.13-0~auto+24.dsc wget dovecot_2.0.13-0~auto+24_i386.changes

Re: [Dovecot] My status

2011-07-22 Thread William Blunn
On 22/07/2011 12:49, Timo Sirainen wrote: 2. My new apartment gets too hot (30C) when it gets over about 22C outside, which is almost daily. So my brain melts in the heat and I don't have energy to do much of anything. But I finally yesterday bought an air conditioning machine, which should sol

Re: [Dovecot] Performance with 200k messages in Maildir

2011-07-20 Thread William Blunn
On 18/07/2011 11:27, Vegard Svanberg wrote: What should I expect performance-wise if I put 20 messages in a Maildir store and use two or three MUAs (mutt and Thunderbird), on an Athlon dual core 2GHz with SATA drives in software RAID (Linux)? Like; would it be useless/crawling, usable or p

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot indexes

2011-07-11 Thread William Blunn
On 08/07/2011 11:35, Mike Prispan wrote: could someone answer my following questions about dovecot indexes? - If I delete dovecot indexes, it recreates them without any problem, right? AFAIK, for mbox and Maildir: True, for sdbox and mdbox: False. - If dovecot recreates indexes, it does no

Re: [Dovecot] NFS mail storage

2011-06-30 Thread William Blunn
On 30/06/2011 00:40, Stan Hoeppner wrote: If you can live with the folder tree limitations of mbox Did you mean with or without considering http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MboxChildFolders ? Bill

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot, mdbox and indexes

2011-06-30 Thread William Blunn
On 30/06/2011 13:28, Angel L. Mateo wrote: We are now trying to migrate to the third scenario and using mdbox. These errors cause a corrupted index and we have to manually delete the user's index so he could read his mail again. * I connect then to a server that have no index for me.

Re: [Dovecot] [Urgent] Email Retrieval from remote servers doesn't use Dovecot

2011-06-30 Thread William Blunn
On 30/06/2011 14:08, Shazia Javed wrote: Thank you for the reply. Now I have relatively better understanding of Dovecot and email service components (MUA, MTA, MRA, etc). However, I am still struggling with the relevant conceptual understanding, and need your help: I have installed 'getmail' a

Re: [Dovecot] Problem accessing Dovecot mailing lists via IMAP

2011-06-30 Thread William Blunn
On 30/06/2011 05:49, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 11:54 +0100, William Blunn wrote: I recently tried to look at the Dovecot mailing lists through an already-configured IMAP profile, which had worked fine in the past. Yeah, it was broken in two ways. Should be working in a few

Re: [Dovecot] what to expect from changing index location

2011-06-30 Thread William Blunn
I concede that this is most likely a WIBNI (Wouldn't It Be Nice If...) and most likely will end up on the list of WIBNIs, never to be implemented. But I would like to take the brainstorm forward another step, just to see. On 30/06/2011 05:35, Timo Sirainen wrote: To allow for migration of exis

Re: [Dovecot] what to expect from changing index location

2011-06-29 Thread William Blunn
On 29/06/2011 18:00, William Blunn wrote: Perhaps the per-mailbox index files for sdbox and mdbox should be re-named to "message metadata databases", and the "map index" should be renamed to "message store database". Also it might be an idea to change the filena

Re: [Dovecot] what to expect from changing index location

2011-06-29 Thread William Blunn
be renamed to "message store database". Specifically we should avoid the word "index". By including the word "database", we make it clearer that these files contain data. Timo, what do you reckon? Regards, Bill On 29/06/2011 17:36, William Blunn wrote: On 28/06/2011

Re: [Dovecot] what to expect from changing index location

2011-06-29 Thread William Blunn
On 28/06/2011 17:13, Davide Vaghetti wrote: I have one thousand virtual users with mdbox mailbox format and 10 GByte quota. I have noticed some performance problem related to I/O (the mailbox disk is a 6TB raid1+0 on ISCSI), so I want to put the index files on a different disk. My actual mail_

Re: [Dovecot] [Urgent] Email Retrieval from remote servers doesn't use Dovecot

2011-06-29 Thread William Blunn
On 29/06/2011 13:19, Shazia Javed wrote: --- Objective: --- We need to download emails from remote server using Dovecot and thunderbird. Dovecot doesn't download e-mail from other servers. Our objective is to store emails in maildir or mbox form

[Dovecot] Problem accessing Dovecot mailing lists via IMAP

2011-06-28 Thread William Blunn
I recently tried to look at the Dovecot mailing lists through an already-configured IMAP profile, which had worked fine in the past. But it failed saying that the authentication method was not supported. http://www.dovecot.org/mailinglists.html says: "You can get access to the IMAP archives by

Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.20 vs v1.2 & v2.0

2011-05-25 Thread William Blunn
On 23/05/2011 20:47, Adam wrote: I am currently running v1.1.20 and was wondering if there is any compelling reason to upgrade to v1.2 or v2.0? For example is there any security updates in v1.2 or v2.0 that aren't included in v1.1.20? The other major thing I would be interested in knowing is

Re: [Dovecot] Having trouble getting Dovecot to read a ~/Maildir configuration

2011-04-25 Thread William Blunn
On 21/04/2011 03:32, Stan Hoeppner wrote: A question about where the mail is actually supposed to be delivered to... initially I configured Exim4 to delivery the email to ~/Maildir and I noticed as you saw in the list directories like ~/Maildir/new and ~/Maildir/cur, however once I configured

Re: [Dovecot] Problem in Mail receiving

2011-04-25 Thread William Blunn
On 25/04/2011 05:53, Anshul Chauhan wrote: i"m using dovecot-1.0.7-7.el5 on CentOS 5.5, i'm getting freqent problem of recieving multiple copies of mails received from outside my domain. this problem comes with some users and not with all the users, maillog shows the same mail downloaded again

Re: [Dovecot] Seperator

2011-04-25 Thread William Blunn
On 12/04/2011 22:35, Carsten Laun-De Lellis wrote: I hope to get some help on the separator. I am sure that I hava a wrong understanding what the separator is. I thaught the separator is the delimiter within the imap folder structure. The 'separator' directive controls what appears in the IMAP

Re: [Dovecot] Thunderbird 3.1 unable to delete subfolder of Trash under mdbox

2011-04-08 Thread William Blunn
On 08/04/2011 16:09, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 16:03 +0100, William Blunn wrote: But with the mdbox user, Thunderbird pops up an error: The current command did not succeed. The mail server for account responded: Invalid mailbox name: Trash/foo/. See if

Re: [Dovecot] Thunderbird 3.1 unable to delete subfolder of Trash under mdbox

2011-04-08 Thread William Blunn
On 08/04/2011 16:09, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 16:03 +0100, William Blunn wrote: But with the mdbox user, Thunderbird pops up an error: The current command did not succeed. The mail server for account responded: Invalid mailbox name: Trash/foo/. See if

[Dovecot] Thunderbird 3.1 unable to delete subfolder of Trash under mdbox

2011-04-08 Thread William Blunn
Thunderbird 3.1.9 over Windows 7. Dovecot 2.0.11 (2:2.0.11-0~auto+41 from http://xi.rename-it.nl/debian/ source on 8 Apr 2011) over Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Trying to set up a Dovecot system with mdbox. But I also wanted to keep some Maildir. So I ended up with both mdbox and Maildir side-by-side an

Re: [Dovecot] http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailServerOverview contains poppycock

2011-03-22 Thread William Blunn
On 22/03/2011 13:00, Charles Marcus wrote: Instead of complaining, why not just fix it (it is a wiki after all) and *then* post your email explaining the changes you made? For changes for the better to come to fruition, a number of things need to happen, only one of which is actually making t

[Dovecot] http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailServerOverview contains poppycock

2011-03-22 Thread William Blunn
Just having another look at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailServerOverview , it seems to have some statements in it which are misleading, and some which are really ... well ... wrong. Quote: "With the possible, optional, exception of the deliver MDA, Dovecot is not involved with reception, delive

Re: [Dovecot] dsync inbox conversion problem (mbox -> mdbox)

2011-03-22 Thread William Blunn
On 22/03/2011 09:09, Sergiy Kyrylkov wrote: We are trying to convert all mbox mail on our systems to mdbox using dsync, in order to be able to use email sub-folders in Thunderbird. You should not be using 2.0 beta6. You should be using 2.0.11 or later. You can have folders containing both mess

Re: [Dovecot] size of "m.XXX" in mdbox

2011-01-10 Thread William Blunn
On 05/01/2011 22:47, Joan Moreau wrote: # doveconf | grep mdbox mdbox_preallocate_space = no mdbox_rotate_interval = 0 mdbox_rotate_size = 2 M Is the space between the '2' and the 'M' significant? Only in my configuration file it says "2M" with no space. I was wondering if the space might ma

Re: [Dovecot] IMAP Clients can not see 3rd tier nested IMAP directories

2011-01-07 Thread William Blunn
On 07/12/2010 15:37, jj...@cornell.edu wrote: I have a very bizarre problem that I hope someone can help me with. I am not sure if this is a Dovecot problem, or IMAP client problem. I recently used Transend's Migrator to move mail from Exchange 2007 to my Dovecot 1.0.7 server. The program seem

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot Digest, Vol 91, Issue 18

2010-11-08 Thread William Blunn
On 08/11/2010 13:16, William Blunn wrote: But surely you can fold header records, e.g. References: For the avoidance of doubt, the second and third lines of that header record are supposed to have an additional space character at the beginning. I did type the required space characters

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot Digest, Vol 91, Issue 18

2010-11-08 Thread William Blunn
On 08/11/2010 12:47, Alan Brown wrote: From: Timo Sirainen Subject: Re: [Dovecot] emails getting mangled when dragging from Exchange account to IMAP shared folders On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 16:18 -0700, Scott Goodwin wrote: FYI, I got rawlog working and it shows the same break in the raw logs

Re: [Dovecot] Can you POP a specific folder in Dovecot?

2010-10-28 Thread William Blunn
On 28/10/2010 16:04, Peter Reinhold wrote: Someone wrote (Probably you), and the time was 14:23 28-10-2010 Though this is of course "Paradigm error" or "Trying to ice-skate up hill". If you want to access folders, then use IMAP. This might be, but I like to be able to access my mail via webm

Re: [Dovecot] Can you POP a specific folder in Dovecot?

2010-10-28 Thread William Blunn
On 28/10/2010 11:26, Peter Reinhold wrote: In my old setup, a user could have folders on the server, and by using his login with the mailbox appended, could pop a given folder specifically. For instance, logging in with u...@example.com would pop INBOX, and logging in with user-fol...@example

Re: [Dovecot] fallocate and glibc 2.10

2010-10-24 Thread William Blunn
On 24/10/2010 15:10, Timo Sirainen wrote: A lot of code just to work around a bug that apparently only exists in Ubuntu 9.10 and Fedora 11. Is there a reason for anyone to be actually using either of them? I was thinking about just ignoring this problem. I thought you were fixing bugs coming o

Re: [Dovecot] minimize mbox mdbox fragmentation

2010-10-21 Thread William Blunn
On 21/10/2010 14:25, Charles Marcus wrote: Reiserfs is not 'kaput', it is still being maintained in the linux kernel (both v3 and work is ongoing for v4), and will be for the foreseeable future. For the benefit of anyone reading this and wondering "Well is it kaput or not?": Charles and I are

Re: [Dovecot] minimize mbox mdbox fragmentation

2010-10-21 Thread William Blunn
On 20/10/2010 18:32, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2010-10-20 12:53 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: Oh, interesting. I didn't know that was possible. And even better: Linux has fallocate() that can do it for other filesystems than just XFS. Or looks like it's only XFS and ext4 (ext3 doesn't support it).

Re: [Dovecot] managesieve fileinto folder with international characters

2010-10-13 Thread William Blunn
On 13/10/2010 19:04, Edward Carraro wrote: main_script: line 1: error: folder name specified for fileinto command is not utf-8: ññoéé. Which versions of things are you using? There is a thread on a similar topic here http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2010-August/051780.html with a reposit

Re: [Dovecot] Limit access to dovecot by domains?

2010-10-13 Thread William Blunn
On 13/10/2010 08:08, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: Is there any way to limit access to dovecot by domains. I only need to give access to a well known set of domains, all from Australia and all networks are known and used either from people at home or mobile access (phones, laptops etc). Have you

Re: [Dovecot] Outlook problem when deleting mails

2010-10-12 Thread William Blunn
On 12/10/2010 17:48, Ulf Jaenicke-Rößler wrote: I'm seeking advice to solve the following "mystery": I set up an IMAP server on Ubuntu 10.04 (dovecot 1.2.9). It appears to work fine apart from one problem. A colleague is running Outlook 2007 I would suggesting considering the use of an IMAP

Re: [Dovecot] migrate machines and upgrade

2010-10-08 Thread William Blunn
On 06/10/2010 22:18, Donny Brooks wrote: dovecot-2.0.1-1_118.fc13.x86_64 installed from atrpm rpm file 2.0.1? It seems strange to go with an old point version. Would you not be better off with 2.0.5 ? Though the latest FC13 binaries I could find were for v2.0.4 to be found at http://pa

Re: [Dovecot] login_* options for 1.0.15

2010-10-08 Thread William Blunn
On 08/10/2010 15:02, Hugo Monteiro wrote: Although i'm aware that version 1.0.15 is rather old, that's what is used in Lenny, so... 1.0.15 is ancient. Please consider upgrading to at least 1.2.x. There is a package for 1.2.13 available in Lenny backports http://packages.debian.org/lenny-back

Re: [Dovecot] Per User Quotas with LDAP on Dovecot 1.x

2010-10-07 Thread William Blunn
On 07/10/2010 20:38, Camron W. Fox wrote: If we upgrade, then we lose RH support for any future dovecot issues And if you don't upgrade, you don't get any support from the guy who wrote Dovecot and therefore knows it inside-out :-) I tend to suggest the practice of: Keep your server "on dist

Re: [Dovecot] Shared folder again !

2010-10-06 Thread William Blunn
On 06/10/2010 14:44, Johan Hendriks wrote: First of all, i have virtual users, with virtual domains. Mail is stored in /usr/local/virtual/domain name/user The following does not have anything to do with the main thrust of your question, but: Storage of e-mail does not fit into the purposes n

Re: [Dovecot] migration 1.2.5 -> 2.0.5 load increased dramatically

2010-10-06 Thread William Blunn
On 06/10/2010 13:16, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * Ralf Hildebrandt: During norml operation this morning we're seeing a significantly increased load on the IMAP server (factor 5, from 5 to 25). Does dovecot need to rebuild index files or perform other IO intensive operations after the upgrade

Re: [Dovecot] Can't receive emails

2010-10-05 Thread William Blunn
On 05/10/2010 15:52, Chris wrote: I searched every logfile I could find, but without any results :( How does it usually work? The mail is send by another server and on my server, does postfix receive the email or is it dovecots job? Who puts the mail into that mail directory? I guess it's postf

Re: [Dovecot] how to upgrade dovecot

2010-10-05 Thread William Blunn
On 01/10/2010 13:32, arif khwaja wrote: I have Centos 5 and devecot 1.0.7 I want to upgrade it to the latest version. I will appreciate if any one can tell me how can I upgrade it please. There are some wiki pages about upgrading here: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Upgrading There appears to be s

Re: [Dovecot] how to upgrade (update) the dovecot

2010-10-05 Thread William Blunn
On 05/10/2010 09:56, arif khwaja wrote: Is there any easy way to upgrade Dovecot like yum command? Or I have to delete the current and install the new version then change the setting?> I will appreciate if you can tell me the steps please? ... --- On Fri, 1/10/10, dovecot-requ...@dovecot.org

Re: [Dovecot] v2.0.5 released

2010-10-04 Thread William Blunn
On 04/10/2010 14:27, Attila Nagy wrote: It seems there is an FD leak in this version. The number of open file descriptors quickly raise after upgrading from 2.0.4. (I haven't got more time to look after the issue, it may be obvious from the diffs) You may be probably ten steps ahead of me but

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot v0.99.13-3 upgrade to 1.0.15-2 ??

2010-10-01 Thread William Blunn
On 30/09/2010 22:17, cajun wrote: I've read some of the mailing lists looking for information on this. Thus far, about all I've found is there was a complete rewrite of Dovecot some time back. I'm wondering now is it even possible to use the same mbox's from 0.99.13-3 with version 1.0.15-2? I

Re: [Dovecot] (Single instance) attachment storage with single-dbox

2010-09-25 Thread William Blunn
On 24/09/2010 19:57, Timo Sirainen wrote: Just a note to myself and whoever else cares, should be added to wiki once it has its own page about this: I have been meaning to say we should have a wiki page about this. With single-dbox messages can be copied with hard linking. This means tha

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot needs to be built with SSL support?

2010-09-22 Thread William Blunn
On 22/09/2010 05:35, ksri...@yahoo.com wrote: I intend to use Dovecot without SSL. Hence, I built it without SSL support. When I am trying start Dovecot, I am getting the following error message. I have set ssl=no in 10-ssl.conf. Can anyone please let me know if it is possible to build and run

Re: [Dovecot] "Documentation" link from http://www.dovecot.org/

2010-09-21 Thread William Blunn
On 21/09/2010 19:17, Timo Sirainen wrote: Wonder if http://dovecot.org/index2.html looks ok. Interesting. Though for me, the version numbers are too small to be useful. I tried it through Firefox 3.6.8 and Microsoft's version 8 offering with the same result. Also I've been wondering about w

[Dovecot] "Documentation" link from http://www.dovecot.org/

2010-09-21 Thread William Blunn
On the Dovecot home page http://www.dovecot.org/ we have a link "Documentation" which links to the Dovecot 1.x wiki ( http://wiki.dovecot.org/ ). There is a question mark in my mind as to whether that is a good idea considering as how the current stable version of Dovecot appears to be 2.0.x.

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot with Virtual Domains

2010-09-21 Thread William Blunn
On 21/09/2010 16:14, Edmonds Namasenda wrote: I have copied the *example-config*s to /usr/local/etc/dovecot/ but literally every change I make as of v1.* is not valid. I wish to use protocals IMAP & POP3 then authenticate with shadow and passwd for system users and mysql for the virtual users.

Re: [Dovecot] tags disappear in Thunderbird

2010-09-21 Thread William Blunn
On 21/09/2010 11:39, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Daniel Luttermann put forth on 9/21/2010 5:02 AM: I would also use maildir for all mailboxes instead of mbox for inbox... Do you have technical justification for this recommendation, or is this merely "personal preference"? If both exist on NFS storag

Re: [Dovecot] kmail-error: can't upload folder (imap-account on dovecot-server)

2010-09-20 Thread William Blunn
On 20/09/2010 12:26, cool.chri...@web.de wrote: Everytime I try to create a folder under my imap-inbox, I get an error like "can't upload folder...", but after this message I can see a new folder under my inbox-folder, but I can't use it ... With a thundermail-client I can create a subfolder wit

Re: [Dovecot] mbox vs maildir

2010-09-18 Thread William Blunn
On 18/09/2010 18:43, Jim Pazarena wrote: I've had clients 'request' nested folders, and it would seem that maildir is designed with that ability while with mbox it is difficult and.or impossible to implement (nested can be achieved; but not nested AND populated in each nest level). You can, u

Re: [Dovecot] moving 1.2.13 system to another hard drive

2010-09-18 Thread William Blunn
On 18/09/2010 18:06, Paul Scott wrote: Having said that, having mail delivered to mbox files under /var/mail, but other folders under Maildir might not be the best configuration: * to get Dovecot to be able to handle that setup means having two different mailbox formats which means a namespac

Re: [Dovecot] moving 1.2.13 system to another hard drive

2010-09-18 Thread William Blunn
On 18/09/2010 01:15, Paul Scott wrote: I have just set up a new system on a new hard drive on the same computer. fetchmail is correctly putting mail in /var/mail/. Whilst I am no expert on fetchmail, as far as I know fetchmail does not deliver mail itself but rather passes it on to an MTA. So

Re: [Dovecot] Moving from MBOX to Maildir or DBox ?

2010-09-16 Thread William Blunn
On 16/09/2010 16:47, Frank Bonnet wrote: Actually we use MBOX format for all our IMAP access but users complain they cannot create subfolders in imap folders, of course they cannot because of MBOX format ... Actually you can, under mbox, do mailboxes which contain both messages and sub-mailbo

Re: [Dovecot] Migrating mail from mbox to maildir using dovecot

2010-09-14 Thread William Blunn
On 14/09/2010 16:51, Donny Brooks wrote: I think I will have to stay with the 1.x branch since we have to stick to using approved rpm's (internal policy) and fedora 13 does not have a 2.x branch that I see yet. I agree sticking to the standard binary packages where possible is generally a go

Re: [Dovecot] Migrating mail from mbox to maildir using dovecot

2010-09-12 Thread William Blunn
On 11/09/2010 20:17, Donny Brooks wrote: On the old mail server it is: dovecot-1.2.11-3.fc11.x86_64 On the new mail server we are migrating to it is: dovecot-1.2.14-1.fc13.x86_64 currently Is there a repo out there that I can install 2.0 from? The only one I have found is atrpms and it is a pa

Re: [Dovecot] nfs director

2010-09-10 Thread William Blunn
On 10/09/2010 07:50, Edward avanti wrote: On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 3.9.2010, at 7.00, Noel Butler wrote: I do take exception to be told this issue can be fixed, but NFS users are not worth it, which is essentially what he told us, I dare say if this l

Re: [Dovecot] Sub-Sub-Subfolders not shown after converting from maildir to mdbox

2010-09-09 Thread William Blunn
On 08/09/2010 21:17, Patrick Westenberg wrote: it seems to be a bug in Thunderbird and SeaMonkey: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592633 Now confirmed. David Bienvenu replicated the problem with Thunderbird (involving connecting to my server running Dovecot 2.0.1), analysed it an

Re: [Dovecot] Question on Mail Formats

2010-09-09 Thread William Blunn
On 09/09/2010 14:49, Giovanni Giorgi wrote: I am still tuning my dovecot, but I find myself very confortable with it. I am going to structure my imap folder with a new namespace (somthing you cannot do with GMail :) and I can choose the mailbox format. What is the difference between the two ma

Re: [Dovecot] Sub-Sub-Subfolders not shown after converting from maildir to mdbox

2010-09-08 Thread William Blunn
On 06/09/2010 23:54, Patrick Westenberg wrote: I just recognized a problem concerning subfolders after converting from maildir to mdbox. Thunderbird and SeaMonkey don´t show folders that are subfolders of subfolders. Using Thunderbird or Seamonkey, Folder1 and Folder2 are listed and can be su

Re: [Dovecot] Sub-Sub-Subfolders not shown after converting from maildir to mdbox

2010-09-08 Thread William Blunn
On 06/09/2010 23:54, Patrick Westenberg wrote: I just recognized a problem concerning subfolders after converting from maildir to mdbox. Thunderbird and SeaMonkey don´t show folders that are subfolders of subfolders. Using Thunderbird or Seamonkey, Folder1 and Folder2 are listed and can be su

Re: [Dovecot] What's %%h ?

2010-09-08 Thread William Blunn
On 08/09/2010 14:41, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 09:22 +0100, William Blunn wrote: What's %%h ? http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Variables says that "%%" expands to "%", so according to that, "%%h" expands to "%h". It does. But I

[Dovecot] What's %%h ?

2010-09-08 Thread William Blunn
What's %%h ? http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Variables says that "%%" expands to "%", so according to that, "%%h" expands to "%h". But I have seen people using "%%h", so it must mean something else. Bill

[Dovecot] Bad HTML at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/

2010-09-07 Thread William Blunn
Bad HTML at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/ This documentation is forDovecot v2.0, seehttp://wiki1.dovecot.org/ http://wiki1.dovecot.org/>">wiki1 for v1.x documentation. After "documentation." there is a closing tag with no corresponding opening tag. A similar issue appears on http://wiki.

Re: [Dovecot] LAYOUT=maildir++ under mbox?

2010-09-06 Thread William Blunn
On 06/09/2010 17:30, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 16:57 +0100, William Blunn wrote: I think what confused me I think you're still confused :) I think you're right. Under LAYOUT=fs perhaps the default_separator ought to be '.', and under LAYO

Re: [Dovecot] LAYOUT=maildir++ under mbox?

2010-09-06 Thread William Blunn
On 06/09/2010 16:41, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 16:36 +0100, William Blunn wrote: mail_location = mbox:~/mail:LAYOUT=maildir++ Mail for INBOX goes to an mbox file "~/mail/inbox". Mail for folder "folder" goes to an mbox file "~/mail/.fold

Re: [Dovecot] LAYOUT=maildir++ under mbox?

2010-09-06 Thread William Blunn
On 06/09/2010 15:07, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 12:37 +0100, William Blunn wrote: Whilst documenting LAYOUT=maildir++ under dbox, that got me thinking: Can we specify :LAYOUT=maildir++ with mbox? Yes, ever since LAYOUT was added. If I have it right, this should

Re: [Dovecot] mdbox: Cannot create subfolder called "dbox-Mails" (2.0beta5)

2010-09-06 Thread William Blunn
On 04/09/2010 16:37, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 4.9.2010, at 11.40, William Blunn wrote: OK, but then it occurred to me, if we can use DIRNAME with Maildir, how about LAYOUT with dbox? How about having the ability to specify Maildir++ folder layout under dbox? For example: You can

Re: [Dovecot] Documentation for "altpath" / "altmove" / ?"Alternate storage"

2010-09-06 Thread William Blunn
On 03/09/2010 11:13, William Blunn wrote: I was thinking about documentation for alternate storage. I have added a new section http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox#Alternate_storage and made various changes elsewhere http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation/dbox#Alternate_storage http

[Dovecot] LAYOUT=maildir++ under mbox?

2010-09-06 Thread William Blunn
Whilst documenting LAYOUT=maildir++ under dbox, that got me thinking: Can we specify :LAYOUT=maildir++ with mbox? If I have it right, this should then remove the problem of not being able to have messages and mail subfolders in the same mail folder. So for example if we had mail location spec

Re: [Dovecot] mdbox: Cannot create subfolder called "dbox-Mails" (2.0beta5)

2010-09-06 Thread William Blunn
On 04/09/2010 16:37, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 4.9.2010, at 11.40, William Blunn wrote: OK, but then it occurred to me, if we can use DIRNAME with Maildir, how about LAYOUT with dbox? How about having the ability to specify Maildir++ folder layout under dbox? For example: You can

Re: [Dovecot] mdbox: Cannot create subfolder called "dbox-Mails" (2.0beta5)

2010-09-04 Thread William Blunn
On 04/09/2010 16:37, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 4.9.2010, at 11.40, William Blunn wrote: OK, but then it occurred to me, if we can use DIRNAME with Maildir, how about LAYOUT with dbox? How about having the ability to specify Maildir++ folder layout under dbox? For example: You can

Re: [Dovecot] Problems with dovecot 2.0, sieve and mdbox

2010-09-04 Thread William Blunn
On 04/09/2010 14:27, Patrick Westenberg wrote: The log shows that the script is called and executed but it is not able to find or create the mailbox: Hello Patrick, I probably can't help you with this problem, but I can mention that oftentimes if you ask about a problem on this list you may b

Re: [Dovecot] mdbox: Cannot create subfolder called "dbox-Mails" (2.0beta5)

2010-09-04 Thread William Blunn
On 13/05/2010 10:14, William Blunn wrote: I am trying out "mdbox" under Dovecot 2.0beta5. Looking in the "mailboxes" directory under the mdbox storage root ("~/dbox" in my case), I can see that the mail folders are mapped into filesystem directories. But Doveco

Re: [Dovecot] Documentation for "altpath" / "altmove" / ?"Alternate storage"

2010-09-03 Thread William Blunn
On 03/09/2010 15:01, Timo Sirainen wrote: With multi-dbox the moving is more complex, but still it only copies the data in m.* files. Dovecot always tries to look for the u.123 or m.123 file from primary storage and if it's not found there, it looks it up from alternate storage. The state isn

[Dovecot] Suggested location for single-dbox

2010-09-03 Thread William Blunn
I've updated http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation regarding a typical mail_location entry for dbox. Previously it said: mail_location = dbox:~/dbox but of course "dbox" is now the old name for "sdbox", so the example should be updated to say "sdbox" and there might/ought also to be an e

[Dovecot] Documentation for "altpath" / "altmove" / ?"Alternate storage"

2010-09-03 Thread William Blunn
I was thinking about documentation for alternate storage. We have a few mentions at: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Altmove But I was thinking it would be helpful if there could be a page about alternate

Re: [Dovecot] bogus fts percentage

2010-09-03 Thread William Blunn
On 02/09/2010 15:03, William Blunn wrote: On 01/09/2010 20:35, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 12:54 -0500, Mike Abbott wrote: Sometimes dovecot-2.0 sends this untagged response to clients: * OK Indexed -2147483648% of the mailbox, ETA 0:00 I imagine there's a bug in

Re: [Dovecot] bogus fts percentage

2010-09-02 Thread William Blunn
On 01/09/2010 20:35, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 12:54 -0500, Mike Abbott wrote: Sometimes dovecot-2.0 sends this untagged response to clients: * OK Indexed -2147483648% of the mailbox, ETA 0:00 I imagine there's a bug in there somewhere. Well, I guess this fixes it: h

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot creating aditional folders?

2010-09-01 Thread William Blunn
On 01/09/2010 12:10, Pablo wrote: Thank you again. Yes, you're on the way :-) Problem was that in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf was: mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%u/ instead of my new line: mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%u/ Are you sure that you want %d/%u and not %d/%n ?

Re: [Dovecot] Lazy expunge plugin - delete folder result error.

2010-08-31 Thread William Blunn
On 31/08/2010 19:00, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 19:31 -0700, Kui Zhang wrote: location = mdbox:~/mdbox:MAILBOXDIR=expunged MAILBOXDIR: Ah, another directive which may appear in a location specification. So far I can remember: INBOX INDEX MAILBOXDIR and I think th

[Dovecot] Does Dovecot support the use of the INDEX directive for mdbox?

2010-08-26 Thread William Blunn
Does Dovecot support the use of the INDEX directive for mdbox? e.g. mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u Bill

Re: [Dovecot] Home directories

2010-08-24 Thread William Blunn
On 24/08/2010 15:57, 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/Home explains all the p

Re: [Dovecot] IMAP connection timeout value?

2010-08-19 Thread William Blunn
On 19/08/2010 11:04, Tamas Kadar wrote: So we're having some ISP issues lately, meaning we have to reboot our cable modem like 2-3 times a day. An unfortunate side-effect I've found is, once the users max out their connection limit (which I've set to 10, and many people do), if we reboot the ca

Re: [Dovecot] wake up getamail on imap request

2010-08-18 Thread William Blunn
On 18/08/2010 13:28, Peter Dungel wrote: i've set up a little mailserver for my homeoffice, and after some problems everything works fine for me, I've some virtual users which get their mail delivered via getmail, and I can access my mails from my windows mailclient. The only issue I'm still

Re: [Dovecot] pigeonhole and utf-8 error

2010-08-18 Thread William Blunn
On 18/08/2010 08:38, Xavier Pons wrote: El 17/08/2010 18:57, Timo Sirainen escribió: On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 09:35 +0200, Xavier Pons wrote: >Aug 17 09:22:40 imap1 dovecot: lmtp(19629,miel): Error: kea6K484akytTAAAJBW4rA: sieve: msgid= ><1099311971.505.1282029699154.javamail.open-xcha...@o.uib.

Re: [Dovecot] Subdomain Migration

2010-08-16 Thread William Blunn
On 16/08/2010 17:58, Jerrale G wrote: On 8/16/2010 3:44 AM, ramesh wrote: Hi All, I would like have suggestion for changing subdomain (belongs to ISP) to own domain, the scenario as below. Presently we have subdomain from ISP ( @xxx.isp.net) email id : ram...@xxx.isp.net ISP charges

Re: [Dovecot] v2.0.0 released

2010-08-16 Thread William Blunn
On 16/08/2010 15:49, Timo Sirainen wrote: As promised last Friday, here's the v2.0.0 release finally. Brilliant work Timo! Bill

Re: [Dovecot] Upgrade to 2.0 - Not so smooth

2010-08-16 Thread William Blunn
On 15/08/2010 22:49, Marc Perkel wrote: On 8/15/2010 2:32 PM, Marcus Rueckert wrote: On 2010-08-15 14:01:25 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: Seems to me that it wouldn't take a lot of code to at lease find if they have adduser or useradd. that is 2 out of many solutions. and depending of the admin he

Re: [Dovecot] Upgrade to 2.0 - Not so smooth

2010-08-15 Thread William Blunn
On 15/08/2010 17:14, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 15.8.2010, at 17.03, Marc Perkel wrote: Starting Dovecot Imap: Fatal: service(pop3-login) User doesn't exist: dovenull Just some real time feedback. I don't know what dovenull user is or why it is necessary. I added now to http://wiki2.dovecot.org/

Re: [Dovecot] Outlook 2003 Client

2010-08-10 Thread William Blunn
On 10/08/2010 10:51, Richard Gliebe wrote: my dovecot IMAP Server (1.0.7-7.el5) is now up and running ;-) Congratulations. You just installed an old unsupported version. If you want help from the list, you need to be running 1.2.x or later. If you distro includes an older version, then that i

Re: [Dovecot] (Single instance) attachment storage

2010-07-25 Thread William Blunn
Damon Atkins wrote: Just keep in mine Signed Emails, the email contents needs to be present back to the client as it came, so the client says the email has not been altered. Timo will presumably correct me if I am wrong: I believe it is already a design goal that messages going in to the mail

Re: [Dovecot] (Single instance) attachment storage

2010-07-19 Thread William Blunn
Timo Sirainen wrote: I was thinking it would be nice to be able to compress attachments after they've already been delivered. Like maybe keep the attachments decoded for a few weeks and then compress them. Similar to how some people do it with Maildir. This can't work without a small header, o

Re: [Dovecot] (Single instance) attachment storage

2010-07-19 Thread William Blunn
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 18:30 +0100, William Blunn wrote: Consider storing the recovery filter stack in the dbox metadata rather than the attachment file. This has a couple of upshots: 1. If one person receives a message with an attachment which is encoded with base64

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