Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-24 Thread Phil Howard
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:17, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 2010-05-21 9:04 AM, Phil Howard wrote: >> Where is the "reply to list" button on Evolution?  I don't see one there, >> either.  All it has are "reply" and "reply to all".  The reply sends to the >> sender alone if it's a case where there ar

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-22 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 21.5.2010, at 16.04, Phil Howard wrote: > There are a number of posters on the list where the reply goes directly to > the list alone. I don't know what it is they do with the headers to get it > to come out that way. Maybe you can ask them what they do, then do that. http://dovecot.org/cgi-

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Charles Marcus put forth on 5/21/2010 10:17 AM: > On 2010-05-21 9:04 AM, Phil Howard wrote: >> Where is the "reply to list" button on Evolution? I don't see one there, >> either. All it has are "reply" and "reply to all". The reply sends to the >> sender alone if it's a case where there are 2 ad

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-21 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-05-21 9:04 AM, Phil Howard wrote: > Where is the "reply to list" button on Evolution? I don't see one there, > either. All it has are "reply" and "reply to all". The reply sends to the > sender alone if it's a case where there are 2 addresses to send to (reply to > all would send to 2 in

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-21 Thread Phil Howard
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 18:45, Noel Butler wrote: > like you said, you dont really do mail servers > > Id LOVE to see you try even 100K users in mail server situation that is > ever changing, you'd soon open your eyes up. > I know it would mean more hits to the DB. > The reason we moved from

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-20 Thread Noel Butler
On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 08:54 -0400, Phil Howard wrote: > > I guess you've been bitten by a proper database solution given > your apprehension for using one. > > It's called experience. I could explain many cases where SQL is > overkill and overhead. But I don't do mail

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-20 Thread Phil Howard
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 01:46, Eray Aslan wrote: > We use Michael Tokarev's tinycdb: > > * stable on disk format > * has atomic updates > * has a tiny library in case you want to link it statically > * uses a lot less memory when the process count is large, i.e. scales well > * rebuilding the dat

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-20 Thread Phil Howard
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 17:14, Noel Butler wrote: > I guess you've never used it with tens and tens of thousands of users, let > alone user numbers well into 6 figures > and why on gods (or any) earth would I use that load of crap being backed > up by another form? that clearly makes no sense, w

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-17 Thread Eray Aslan
On 05/18/2010 12:14 AM, Noel Butler wrote: > On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 09:28 -0400, Phil Howard wrote: >> its your network (I hope for your sake).. its up to you how >> efficient it >> is. >> >> CDB is very fast. > > yes it is, if you only have a small number of users. We use

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-17 Thread Noel Butler
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 09:28 -0400, Phil Howard wrote: > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 17:48, Noel Butler > wrote: > > > > > MySQL makes it such a dream, even with customers adding > aliases and so > on, its a simple instruction to mysql via the web portal from >

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-17 Thread Phil Howard
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 17:48, Noel Butler wrote: > CDB, oh dear god, you want to go back in time? > CDB is no better than any other flatfile based system, it was horrible > with qmail and it'll be horrible with anything else above a couple > thousand users, you clearly dont add/del users all the

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-14 Thread Noel Butler
On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 09:05 -0400, Phil Howard wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 19:25, Noel Butler wrote: > > > > %d is derived from the right hand side of a username, dovecot's deliver > > couldn't care less about verifying the domain, since that is the MTA's > > job. > > > > No doubt. Howe

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-14 Thread Phil Howard
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 19:25, Noel Butler wrote: > > And it did seem to do that already. Mail was sent to dovecot/deliver. > It > > included the domain name. But deliver just didn't construct the > > mail_location correctly due to %d being empty. The resulting path with > the > > empty spac

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-11 Thread Noel Butler
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 16:17 -0400, Phil Howard wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 14:38, Bradley Giesbrecht < > bradley.giesbre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On May 11, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Phil Howard wrote: > > > > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:59, Gerard Seibert >> >wrote: > >> > >> Virtual docum

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-11 Thread Phil Howard
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 14:38, Bradley Giesbrecht < bradley.giesbre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On May 11, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Phil Howard wrote: > > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:59, Gerard Seibert > >wrote: >> >> Virtual documentaion: http://www.postfix.org/virtual.8.html >>> >>> >> This seems to be

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-11 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On May 11, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Phil Howard wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:59, Gerard Seibert >wrote: Virtual documentaion: http://www.postfix.org/virtual.8.html This seems to be a delivery agent of its own. I don't want Postfix to do the delivery. I want Dovecot to do the delivery s

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-11 Thread Phil Howard
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:59, Gerard Seibert wrote: > Virtual documentaion: http://www.postfix.org/virtual.8.html > This seems to be a delivery agent of its own. I don't want Postfix to do the delivery. I want Dovecot to do the delivery so it can create the additional cache/index files (whate

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-11 Thread Phil Howard
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:59, Gerard Seibert wrote: > Post back if you get this fixed. > Bsically, what I need to know from THIS list is exactly what conditions the dovecot/deliver program needs in order to properly fill in the %d variable for mail_location. Once I know that ... know exactly w

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-11 Thread Phil Howard
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:59, Gerard Seibert wrote: > I have to admit that I am somewhat confused. You have "postfix" listed > as user/group in the dovecot.conf file, yet you have "vmail" listed as > the user in 'master.cf". That doesn't look right. > I'm not sure which way things are supposed t

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-11 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Phil Howard wrote: > > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 18:16, Jerry wrote: > > > Please post the output of "dovecot -n" and "postconf -n". Better, > > provide output from the postfinger tool. This can be found at > > http://ftp.wl0.org/SOURCES/postfinger. > > > > I have r

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-11 Thread Phil Howard
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 18:16, Jerry wrote: > Please post the output of "dovecot -n" and "postconf -n". Better, > provide output from the postfinger tool. This can be found at > http://ftp.wl0.org/SOURCES/postfinger. > I have redacted external IP addresses and domain names. from dovecot -n: #

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-10 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 10 May 2010 17:30:48 -0400 Phil Howard articulated: > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 17:11, Romer Ventura > wrote: > > > try using -d ${recipient}, but change the format of the username in > > dovecot.conf > > > > What does "change the format of the username" mean? > > > > > What i did wa

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-10 Thread Phil Howard
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 17:23, Romer Ventura wrote: > man pipe > > ${nexthop} > This macro expands to the next-hop hostname. > > This information is modified by the h flag for case > folding. > But what is next hop? I don't have any next hop that I'm awa

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-10 Thread Phil Howard
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 17:11, Romer Ventura wrote: > try using -d ${recipient}, but change the format of the username in > dovecot.conf > What does "change the format of the username" mean? > What i did was to set the mail attribute for each user in AD, then perform > a query for it and have

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-10 Thread Romer Ventura
man pipe ${nexthop} This macro expands to the next-hop hostname. This information is modified by the h flag for case folding. Thanks -- Romer Ventura On May 10, 2010, at 4:23 PM, Phil Howard wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 15:25, Jerry wrote

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-10 Thread Phil Howard
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 15:25, Jerry wrote: > From my 'master.cf' file: > > dovecot unix - n n - - pipe > flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver > -f ${sender} -d ${us...@${nexthop} > > From 'main.cf' file: (snippet) > > virtual_gid_m

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-10 Thread Romer Ventura
try using -d ${recipient}, but change the format of the username in dovecot.conf What i did was to set the mail attribute for each user in AD, then perform a query for it and have dovecot group users by domain, this way i can have us...@example.net and us...@example.com Thanks -- Rome

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-10 Thread Phil Howard
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 15:58, Jerry wrote: > > See: http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Postfix > > Be sure to read the entire page. > I have a few times. But now I'm getting a bit of a different perspective on part of it. The parameters are: -d : Destination username. If given, the user information

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-10 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 10 May 2010 15:35:15 -0400 Phil Howard articulated: > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 15:25, Jerry > wrote: > > > From my 'master.cf' file: > > > > dovecot unix - n n - - pipe > > flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver > > -f ${se

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-10 Thread Phil Howard
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 15:25, Jerry wrote: > From my 'master.cf' file: > > dovecot unix - n n - - pipe > flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver > -f ${sender} -d ${us...@${nexthop} > > From 'main.cf' file: (snippet) > > virtual_gid_

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-10 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 10 May 2010 14:06:27 -0500 Romer Ventura articulated: > Yes, 1001 are the uid and gid in my system, check your /etc/passwd > to get the ones for your system. > > mailbox_command = /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver > > Thanks > -- > Romer Ventura > > On May 10, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Phil How

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-10 Thread Phil Howard
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 15:07, Romer Ventura wrote: > I dont know what else. > > I tried to chwon postfix:postfix, vmail:vmail, postfix:vmail, vmail:postfix > and none of them worked. I had to go with chmod 777 > I believe that is because Postfix is running dovecot/deliver as username derived fr

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-10 Thread Romer Ventura
I dont know what else. I tried to chwon postfix:postfix, vmail:vmail, postfix:vmail, vmail:postfix and none of them worked. I had to go with chmod 777 Thanks -- Romer Ventura On May 10, 2010, at 1:42 PM, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2010-05-10 1:59 PM, Romer Ventura wrote: I had to chmod

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-10 Thread Romer Ventura
Yes, 1001 are the uid and gid in my system, check your /etc/passwd to get the ones for your system. mailbox_command = /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver Thanks -- Romer Ventura On May 10, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Phil Howard wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 14:44, Romer Ventura wrote: What about you

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-10 Thread Phil Howard
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 14:44, Romer Ventura wrote: > What about your postfix conf..? > mine is set to: > virtual_gid_maps = static:1001 > virtual_mailbox_base = /srv/mail/vmail/ > virtual_mailbox_domains = $mydomain > virtual_mailbox_maps = ldap:/etc/postfix/ldap_users.cf > virtual_transport = d

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-10 Thread Phil Howard
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 14:42, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 2010-05-10 1:59 PM, Romer Ventura wrote: > > I had to chmod 777 for it to work.. > > That's pretty much *never* a reasonable solution. > Absolutely right! But it's an interim test ... in this case to see what userid the created file would

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-10 Thread Romer Ventura
What about your postfix conf..? mine is set to: virtual_gid_maps = static:1001 virtual_mailbox_base = /srv/mail/vmail/ virtual_mailbox_domains = $mydomain virtual_mailbox_maps = ldap:/etc/postfix/ldap_users.cf virtual_transport = dovecot virtual_uid_maps = static:1001 Thanks -- Romer Ventura

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-10 Thread Phil Howard
Just realized my email was not going to the list. On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 14:20, Romer Ventura wrote: > I am using static uids: > mail_uid = vmail > mail_gid = vmail > user = vmail > group = vmail > > else it will do what you describe. > I have that, too. But it's not running the right userid.

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-10 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-05-10 1:59 PM, Romer Ventura wrote: > I had to chmod 777 for it to work.. That's pretty much *never* a reasonable solution. -- Best regards, Charles Marcus I.T. Director Media Brokers International, Inc. 678.514.6200 x224 | 678.514.6299 fax

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-10 Thread Romer Ventura
I am using static uids: mail_uid = vmail mail_gid = vmail user = vmail group = vmail else it will do what you describe. Thanks -- Romer Ventura On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 13:59, Romer Ventura wrote: I had to chmod 777 for it to work.. I did chmod 777 to see what it would do, and especiall

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

2010-05-10 Thread Romer Ventura
I had to chmod 777 for it to work.. Thanks -- Romer Ventura On May 10, 2010, at 12:33 PM, Phil Howard wrote: I'm getting this ... May 10 12:45:01 eth0 postfix/local[3416]: A788D685F7: to=< x...@.net>, relay=local, delay=13, delays=13/0/0/0.03, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temp