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We switched our mail server over from mbox to maildir a few months ago and couldn't be happier - the performance under normal load is incredible. However we now have a problem with backup.. Typically we would run tar on the mail server, sending its output to another server via ssh.. Like this: tar cfp - /home | gzip | ssh other.server (cd /backups && tar xfp -).. I have tried

There's a good chance I could be missing something obvious here, as I can't find much documentation on the LDA other than on the wiki, which is sparse. Local mail delivery works for normal users, but when attempting to deliver mail for root I get this error: Jan 30 13:42:50 apollo deliver: Running as root isn't permitted Both sendmail and dovecot run as root on my server -

I just installed dovecot 1.0alpha4 on a very busy RHEL4 server with about 1300 users. So far so good, except for the dreaded duplicate emails in outlook for users who use POP3 and have "leave message on server" selected. After searching the archives I found that this is usually related to the UIDL format. The example in the .conf file is this: / # If you want UIDL compatibility