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...directory.) It's almost as if the 'default_mail_env' is telling it to create (literal) '~' before realising that this is shorthand (as in C-shell) for home directory. 2. We have some Pine usage in our UNIX cluster. Historically this has taken advantage of the Pine "rsh mailmachine /etc/rimapd" ability to avoid the need for the password: pre-authentication etc. (Yes, we realise that 'rsh' has security issues.) But when I try making symlink "/etc/rimapd" point to "/usr/dovecot/sbin/dovecot" this fails: Error: Can't use SSL key file /et...

...ilserver (exim4, dovecot 1.0.0, postgresql, ubuntu dapper, about 500 users) I record an enourmous amount of disc writes (up to 18000 blocks written each second) in the time where most of users are active. This IO activity causes wait-states on the disc interface (RAID5) and finally slows down my mailmachine. Is there a explanation for these disc writes respectively is there a possibility to minimize this activity. Stopping Dovecot on this machine causes stopping most of the disc activity. Regards Rainer Sigl -- ----------------- Rainer Sigl, | email: sigl at mpe.mpg.de MPI f...

...very soon after. I have tracked it down to happening at the same time these appear in the logs. Seems the transaction logs is getting corrupted somehow and then rebuilding itself (which works fine). The problem is while its re-builing the users think all of their mail is gone. May 3 09:35:52 mailmachine dovecot: IMAP(test at domain.com): Corrupted transaction log file usershomedir/Maildir/dovecot.index.log seq 3: Invalid transaction log size (32708 vs 32840): usershomedir/Maildir/dovecot.index.log (sync_offset=32708) We are using load balanced servers and data/index's are stored in their h...