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Just had my first (non-Dovecot) server failure due to dried out caps on the motherboard. Got me to thinking about my single-point-of-failure mail server. Currently running Dovecot and Postfix with no issues, but want to start taking steps just to be safe. I currently run a filesystem backup every 24 hours to a tar file over NFS to another server in our rack. I am backing up: /home/vmail

Hi all, Preparing for a replication setup, I read (at the bottom of <http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Replication>) that `dovecot --hostdomain` should give a different output on the two servers. This is not the case for me: both give "localhost". I'm trying to change my configuration to set the hostdomain to another value, but I can't find how to do this. I tried: ? setting

SH Development wrote: > [?] > So I believe my first step is to set up another server, on another IP, > different hostname, with Dovecot and Postfix, and simply use the files from > the /etc directories of the existing server to configure it (changing the > IP and hostname of course). > > Am I on the right track so far? > > Next steps involve setting up replication with

Perhaps my previous email was a bit long. Let me start with a single question. Is a user without the "lookup" ACL right to a given mailbox supposed to be able to see the mailbox listed in their email client?

Hi, I have two dovecot servers that are configured to be replicated using dsync over ssh. This has been working well for a long time. Recently I changed the mail_home path on one of the servers, because of mail data migration. The old file system is still available, but has been made read-only for now ? I plan to remove it once everything runs smoothly again. Now it seems replication is

Hi all, I'm trying to set up public mailboxes for a subset of my users. This is on dovecot 2.2.27. I've created a new public namespace, and the new mailboxes indeed show up for everyone. So far so good. Now I want to restrict access: these mailboxes shouldn't be visible at all except to a fixed list of users. This part I can't seem to get working. I've added acl data