Re: [Dovecot] Virtual users - what is better Maildir or mbox?

2012-06-26 Thread Trever L. Adams
On 06/26/2012 07:11 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> The only draw back I see with maildir is one file per message. This > > it is mostly adventage. Agreed. > >> makes it resilient to corruption that mbox sees (if a message gets >> corrupted, you erase one message and that corruption won't propagate >

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual users - what is better Maildir or mbox?

2012-06-26 Thread Trever L. Adams
> b) Make sure your local samba setup is joined to the domain. Make sure > it writes an appropriate krb5.keytab (/etc/krb5.keytab in my setup) as > part of its password management, etc. > > net ads keytab add smtp/mail_server_fqdn > net ads keytab add imap/mail_server_fqdn > > > You may have

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual users - what is better Maildir or mbox?

2012-06-26 Thread Kaya Saman
On 06/25/2012 08:37 AM, Trever L. Adams wrote: On 06/25/2012 01:20 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: Now what I would like to know is, which is better for "virtual hosting" Maildir or mbox? Basically my requirement is that I would like to separate users via either individual folders and then put each user

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual users - what is better Maildir or mbox?

2012-06-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The only draw back I see with maildir is one file per message. This it is mostly adventage. makes it resilient to corruption that mbox sees (if a message gets corrupted, you erase one message and that corruption won't propagate even if you leave it in place). In many setups this also leads to

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual users - what is better Maildir or mbox?

2012-06-25 Thread Trever L. Adams
On 06/25/2012 01:52 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Trever L. Adams > wrote: >> On 06/25/2012 01:20 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: >> >> Now what I would like to know is, which is better for "virtual >> hosting" Maildir or mbox? >> >> >> Basically my requirement is that I would lik

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual users - what is better Maildir or mbox?

2012-06-25 Thread J E Lyon
On 25 Jun 2012, at 10:44, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 2012-06-25 3:58 AM, J E Lyon wrote: >> I've not come up with any significant advantages of mbox that count >> for much in my experiences and installations . . Would be interested >> to hear of suggested advantages that I might have overlooked >

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual users - what is better Maildir or mbox?

2012-06-25 Thread Branko Majic
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 08:52:51 +0100 Kaya Saman wrote: > To start with the reason I'm not using LDAP is because I couldn't find > enough information on how to set it up! I did post here a couple of > times but got no responses.. so I figured it was something that > people either didn't know or

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual users - what is better Maildir or mbox?

2012-06-25 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2012-06-25 3:58 AM, J E Lyon wrote: I've not come up with any significant advantages of mbox that count for much in my experiences and installations . . Would be interested to hear of suggested advantages that I might have overlooked One major advantage of mbox (and now mdbox) over maildir

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual users - what is better Maildir or mbox?

2012-06-25 Thread Kaya Saman
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 2012-06-25 3:20 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: >> >> # cat dovecot.conf >> # v1.2+: >> auth_use_winbind = yes > > > Please always only provide output of doveconf -n, not copy/pastes from the > config files. > > This proves (to yourself and every

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual users - what is better Maildir or mbox?

2012-06-25 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2012-06-25 3:20 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: # cat dovecot.conf # v1.2+: auth_use_winbind = yes Please always only provide output of doveconf -n, not copy/pastes from the config files. This proves (to yourself and everyone else) that you are using the config that dovecot is actually using - it

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual users - what is better Maildir or mbox?

2012-06-25 Thread J E Lyon
On 25 Jun 2012, at 08:52, Kaya Saman wrote: > I've previously **only** ever worked with Maildir but I was told that there > are some benefits to mbox which is why I decided to try to use it here! I used mbox before Dovecot, but once I found Maildir, I never looked back. I've not come up with an

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual users - what is better Maildir or mbox?

2012-06-25 Thread Kaya Saman
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Trever L. Adams wrote: > On 06/25/2012 01:20 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: > > Now what I would like to know is, which is better for "virtual > hosting" Maildir or mbox? > > > Basically my requirement is that I would like to separate users via > either individual folders a

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual users - what is better Maildir or mbox?

2012-06-25 Thread Trever L. Adams
On 06/25/2012 01:20 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: > Now what I would like to know is, which is better for "virtual > hosting" Maildir or mbox? > > > Basically my requirement is that I would like to separate users via > either individual folders and then put each user's mbox or Maildir in > the created dire

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual users - what is better Maildir or mbox?

2012-06-25 Thread J E Lyon
On 25 Jun 2012, at 08:20, Kaya Saman wrote: > Now what I would like to know is, which is better for "virtual > hosting" Maildir or mbox? I always use Maildir in preference to mbox . . it's just such a lovely solution, imho :) (Mind you, I'm on a *nix server, so filesystem behaviour may be a cons

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual users - what is better Maildir or mbox?

2012-06-25 Thread Trever L. Adams
On 06/25/2012 01:20 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to configure a server to use SAMBA and Winbind to > authenticate to Active Directory I managed to get this portion up > and running even the Dovecot portion. > > For reference something similar to this guide: > > http://www.whitneyt

[Dovecot] Virtual users - what is better Maildir or mbox?

2012-06-25 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, I'm trying to configure a server to use SAMBA and Winbind to authenticate to Active Directory I managed to get this portion up and running even the Dovecot portion. For reference something similar to this guide: http://www.whitneytechnologies.com/?p=119 However PAM is slightly differen