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Greetings! I dug thru the archives but didn't see a clear answer to this. A client has an existing sendmail/pop3 system, and I would like to switch to dovecot for imap support. For imap I much prefer the Maildir format over mbox, however, sendmail natively dumps to mbox (mailspool) and that is what pop typically reads. I've read the threads on how to make sendmail write to Maildir. My problem is that I'd like to support both pop/mailspool and imap/maildir. While running dovecot in imap-only it will use mbox format to read the /var/mail/user as the Inbox and then cr...

Hi all, we've started receiving complaints from users that seemingly use more quota than they actually have. We noticed that these users have (in some cases many) .nfs files in their mailspool. Some of our admins checked their own dirs, and noticed them there as well. This could of course be unrelated to dovecot (kernel issue, netapp issue) but maybe somehow has an idea about if dovecot could cause this. This has been going on for at least a year, not really enough to notice before now....

We are setting up a Dovecot over a pair of NFS which mirrored with DRBD +Heartbeat, under Debian Etch AMD64 with Kernel 2.6.22-5. The problem was slow header downloading rate. We had tried to use postal to inject 500 emails which are under 5KB each, but when ever we start up Mail.app, Thunderbird or even OE6, the header download rate is terrible slow. Its look like a few sec for just 1

Hey linux-security-ers: I just compiled/installed Pine 4.02 for my RH 5.0 machine today (didn't see an RPM last time I checked ftp.redhat.com:/pub/contrib), and after I got it installed, it kept giving me errors about not being able to create a lockfile when dinking with my mailspool in /var/spool/mail. After doing some digging on DejaNews and the Pine website, I find a document who says the solution is to 'chmod 1777 /var/spool/mail' (you can read the doc at http://www.washington.edu/pine/QandA/sysadmins.html). Now, here's the question: isn't this inherently...

Hi, I am attempting to migrate a mailspool from a cyrus server to a dovecot server using the dsync backup approach as described in the wiki at <https://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/Dsync>. The first attempt works great. Everything copies over and a quick glance over the spool looks good. Running doveadm backup again though results...

...aliases currently running dovecot for users at imap.domain1.com on one of those addresses. Now I need to also make it accessible via the name imap.domain2.com on a different address. Both "hosts" require SSL certs. They'll be using the same user auth source and have access to the same mailspools (although certain users will access theirs through domain1 and others through domain2). It sounds like dovecot doesn't support this sort of ip-based virtual hosting scheme right now. Is it possible to just configure two separate instances of the server, one bound to each virtual interface wit...

...eg. Nov 29 00:49:47 imap-e.ucl.ac.uk dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] IMAP(ccaazzz): close() failed with index file /home/ccaazzz/imap-mail/.imap/mbox/dovecot.index: Stale NFS file handle Our IMAP servers (5 of them) are a mixture of Sparc Solaris 8 and Solaris 10 machines, using NFS to a central mailspool running on AIX. We are using a mixture of Dovecot 1.0.3 and 1.0.5. dovecot -n gives: # 1.0.3: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ listen: *:143 ssl_listen: *:993 ssl_ca_file: /usr/local/ssl/certs/sureserveredu.pem ssl_cert_file: /usr/local/ssl/certs/imap-server_ucl_ac_uk.crt s...

...# OS: Darwin 9.7.0 i386 protocols: pop3 ssl: no disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/dovecot-1.2.rc4/libexec/dovecot/pop3- login first_valid_uid: 2001 mail_location: mbox:~/_mailboxes:INBOX=~/_inbox/mailspool mbox_read_locks: flock mbox_write_locks: flock dotlock mail_executable: /usr/local/dovecot-1.2.rc4/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir: /usr/local/dovecot-1.2.rc4/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_lock_session: yes pop3_uidl_format: %08Xv%08Xu auth default: passdb:...

> On 9 Sep 2018, at 18.42, Andreas Thienemann <andreas at bawue.net> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am attempting to migrate a mailspool from a cyrus server to a dovecot server using the dsync backup approach as described in the wiki at <https://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/Dsync>. > > The first attempt works great. Everything copies over and a quick glance over the spool looks good. > > Running doveadm backup agai...

...t/data/someuser:INBOX=/var/dovecot-test/someuser debug ('someuser' 'someuser' '' 'IMAP' '/HOME_DIRECTORY_USED_BUT_NOT_GIVEN_BY_USERDB' '1500 ')mbox: root=/var/dovecot-test/data/someuser, index=/var/dovecot-test/data/someuser, inbox=/var/dovecot -teste-mailspool/someuser auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP lip=dovecot_machine_ip rip=client_ip resp=dGhhaXNjZ2IAdGhhaXNjZ2IAdHJvY2FyMTIz auth(default): ldap(someuser,client_ip): bind search: base=dc=mydomain,dc=me filter=(&(object class=inetlocalmailrecipient)(uid=someuser...

Hi all, I'm using Debian (testing) for my office mail. I'm using sendmail and Dovecot to deliver email to clients over IMAP using mbox format. I want to move over and start using Maildir. I know that I can use different MTA's to do the job, but I really like sendmail, and I run additional sendmail servers across the my internal and external networks. I'm probably

...er: Apple Mail (2.481) Content-Length: 301 Status: RO X-UID: 326402 ) ========================== It looks like dovecot really isn't sending any information for message #1, starting right off at message #2. The headers it gives for message #2 are the same as the first message in my mailspool, and the headers for message #3 are those of the second message in my mailspool. It goes on from there. This doesn't happen to other folders I try to access via IMAP, only my INBOX. Since this only seems to affect Evolution and not pine, I don't know whether this is technically a bug in...

It also got the bulletin out to new users without admin intervention. Sent from Mobile ________________________________ From: Doug Hardie<mailto:bc979 at lafn.org> Sent: ?2/?22/?2016 4:02 To: Dovecot Mailing List<mailto:dovecot at dovecot.org>; Timo Sirainen<mailto:tss at iki.fi> Cc: Kevin Kershner<mailto:cstkersh at outlook.com> Subject: Re: Dovecot Bulletin > On 20

...dirty_syncs turned on and off and I have tried putting "flags" in mail_cache_fields. Obviously I am wandering in the dark. Here is the setup: pine 4.64 dovecot 1.0rc19 (installed from rpm dovecot-1.0-2_40.rc19.el4.at.i386.rpm) Centos 4.4.2 x86 mail_location = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=%h/.mailspool/%u:INDEX=/var/dovecot_indexes\/%d/%n Inbox is NFS mounted, INDEX is on local disk Thanks.

I am trying to set up the Dovecot pop3 server for some virtual hosting I am doing and it is going well, I am generating a passwd file that points dovecot to the virtual users mailspool. The only thing that I don't have working is that my current pop3 server (NTMail) has case insensitve usernames. Dovecot doesn't. I was hoping there was just an option to turn on, but I didn't see one, and unfortunately I don't know enough C to change to lc($submitted_user) eq lc(...

Is it possible to mix maildir and mbox formats with dovecot? For example, I would like ~/mail to be in maildir format yet keep the inbox (/var/mail/%u) in mbox format. If so, how may I go about this? Or am I stuck not being able to create subdirectories in ~/mail? Cheers, Shane

Hi, is there a way to make dovecot autocreate the home directory and the /var/mail/username mbox file? I have tons of users in /etc/passwd but they might never open a shell (where I have oddjobmkhome working), just pop/imap. Thanks! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

...ace private { separator = / prefix = ~/mail/ hidden = yes } namespace private { separator = / prefix = ~%u/mail/ hidden = yes } ------------------------------------ All seems to work except the message showing up in the logs. My goal/setup is to provide: 1. mbox delivery in the mailspool(/var/mail) from sendmail 2. access to existing ~/Mail/ mbox storage. 3. ability to begin setting up / migrating to maildir in ~/Maildir Is my namespace config above overkill / borken / wrong? Ideas / suggestions on this would be greatly appreciated. Environment: Server to be: RedHat AS EL4 Cl...

...rname_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ auth default { mechanisms = plain digest-md5 passdb ldap { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf } userdb static { args = uid=1004 gid=1004 mail=maildir:/data/mailspool/%d/%n } } dovecot-ldap.conf: #all user attrs here are commented, since we don't get any user info from ldap, but checking a password #user_attrs = uid,homeDirectory,,,uidNumber,gidNumber #user_attrs = ,,,,,,, #user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u)) pass_filter = (&a...

On Mon, 23 Jul 2018, Michael Wagner wrote: > here works a dovecot 2.2.27 on a raspberrypi and the behaviour is as > expected. > > doveadm -f tab fetch -u <user> "uid date.saved" mailbox Trash > uid date.saved > 314 2018-06-23 00:35:59 > 315 2018-06-23 12:39:10 > 316 2018-06-24 10:32:43 > ... > > And I have a cron script that