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Hi I'm very new to Dovecot (been using Courier for 5 years), but I've been persuaded of the merits of Dovecot and since the server needs upgrading that seems like the perfect time/excuse. On a test server, I set up postfix and installed Dovecot (running 32-bit Debian Squeeze, installed from apt-get). I mirrored the mail store (Maildirs, for historical reasons located under

Hello, i have to backup (tape library) a mailsystem with about 300.000 Mailboxes on 2 backends. Summary of all mailboxes are 2 TByte. The mailstore is mdbox. Is it save to do a simple filesystem backup (full and incremental) with backupsoftware? What is the prefered strategy to do a backup for desaster recovery (mailsystem crash) and restoring single usermailboxes? Regards, Claus

Hi I've upgraded to 2.1.7 and finally decided to turn off imaps and pop3s because these days everyone uses tls over 143 anyway. But it's on and I can't figure out why. I only have non-ssl versions specified: protocols = imap pop3 I've stopped and started and the ports are still open and netstat says dovecot is listening on them.. mail:~# netstat -tulnp | grep dove tcp 0

...work extremely well. It was easy enough to set up a systemd timer and service to pull the mail down. mysync.timer ============ # Run the mbsync process to sync mail down to local mediabox [Unit] Description=mbsync timer ConditionPathExists=%h/.mbsyncrc ConditionPathIsDirectory=/stuff/Backups/Mailsystems/mbsync-backups [Timer] OnBootSec=15m OnCalendar=hourly Persistent=true [Install] WantedBy=timers.target mysync.service ============== # mbsync service [Unit] Description=mbsync backup from mailsystems ConditionPathExists=%h/.mbsyncrc ConditionPathIsDirectory=/stuff/Backups/Mailsystems/mbsync-b...

Hi, we start to run out of diskspace soon as our users start to keep mails for longer time periods. That's fine, but space consuming. The maildirs are about 1 TB in total, and not long ago we enabled zlib which is very nice. Now I have some thoughts about the next steps: a) Migrating the whole system to a new server with more storage? b) Install a virtual server for the mailsystem and an

The mdbox-format with the altstorage-feature is quite nice and important. But we're having much more then >> 30 TB of maildata and doing an fsck on huge partitions takes too much (down-) time for our mailsystem. It would be much easier, if Dovecot would be able to use at least THREE storage-paths for his m-Files (and not just TWO like now). Having an altstorage1 and altstorage2, we

my mailsystem is using postfix and virtual mailbox which stored in mysql db. SMTP AUTH is using PAM, pam-mysql to authenticate against a mysql db. I installed dovecot 0.99-14. In the dovecot example config file it mentioned that auth_passdb can check against thru PAM but auth_userdb didn't Does it mean that auth_userdb should use other means e.g. /etc/passwd, shadow, vpopmail, etc and in my

Hi, I have mailsystem with virtual users only (/home/vmail/domain/user). I need to integrate RT3.x (a ticketing system). I have installed the client but I need to send mail to a pipe. Rt wants me to insert: |/usr/bin/rt-mailgate --queue bla --action bla --url http://bla.bal/ In /etc/postfix/aliases. That does not work for me. What is the right way to achieve that mail to rt at mydomain is

Hi, i have a strange problem since pxelinux 3.62 with the F10 help key. I configured this: DISPLAY pxelinux.cfg/schlunix_new.txt F1 pxelinux.cfg/helps/schlunix F2 pxelinux.cfg/helps/schlunix64 F3 pxelinux.cfg/helps/rescue F4 pxelinux.cfg/helps/rescue64 F5 pxelinux.cfg/helps/stress F6 pxelinux.cfg/helps/stress64 F7 pxelinux.cfg/helps/dosimages F8 pxelinux.cfg/helps/mailsystem F9

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi :) Is there any plan to include delivery agent in 1.x? I would be very happy, if there would be lmtp delivery agent included with dovecot 1.x... This would make creating large mailsystem cluster creation very simple + indexes would be always up2date. Brane -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----

HI I don't know if this is a dovecot issue or a client one. But as Dovecot is the most recent change, I'll start here. I have a server that's been running Courier for about 6 years and in all that time I think I've only ever had 1 issues where an entire mail box was repopped by a webmail client. However, since moving to a new server and dovecot 4 weeks ago, I've now had the

Hello all, I hope that it now works and there is no longer problems with my mailsystem. It could be that it already worked but it doesn''t look like because the mail don''t came back from the list. I am trying to setup stubdomains for my running domains on Xen 4.2. I read this wiki articles: http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/StubDom

Hi, What are people doing for backups ? My current process is LVM snapshot and backup from that to NFS share. But there seems to be hints around the internet that people use/abuse "doveadm backup" for backup purposes even though it seems its original intention was for transferring mailboxes between dovecot instances. Assuming its ok to "doveadm backup" to an NFS share, is it

Hi, I have a mailsystem where i have some local users with shell access and full home dirs which receive mail and also several SQL virtual users only for mail. With the virtual users, everything works fine. Mail is delivered via LMTP and also sieve works :) The SQL Lookup knows what to do with username at domain.com The problem is the system user. If exim delivers the mail to the lmtp

hi, mutt -f imap://max at test.local@127.0.0.1 Could not connect to 127.0.0.1 (Connection refused). lsof -i dovecot 20200 root 5u IPv4 233361 TCP localhost:imap2 (LISTEN) imap-logi 20204 dovecot 0u IPv4 233361 TCP localhost:imap2 (LISTEN) imap-logi 20205 dovecot 0u IPv4 233361 TCP localhost:imap2 (LISTEN) imap-logi 20206 dovecot 0u IPv4 233361 TCP

Hi Can anyone point me to a howto to arrange for multiple domains to deliver to one inbox with Dovecot? For example, user1 at example.com and user1 at example.net should both be delivered to /var/spool/mail/virtual/example.net/user1 Currently, I have the dovecot LDA set as: dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=mailsystem argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver

Hi, I'm sorry to bug you with an not directly dovecot related question, but this is for me right now the place with the best mailsystem admins I know. I'm asked if there is a way to save a copy of all mail we send trough our sendmail server (Red Hat EL 5.x) in and out as an .eml file for further processing by a DMS system. The files should be saved on some network share. Any suggestion

Dear all, We are getting closer to the migration of our mailsystem. Now I have a special question. We are successfully using passdb { driver = pam } and that is good. Now, how would I tell dovecot to proxy certain users (the ones not yet migrated) to the old server? My attempts to configure an additional userdb failed since this seems to override the passdb setting. Grateful for any

Hi @all, First: I'm sorry when my english isn't understandable, please just ask if I messed things up. I switched from Cyrus to Dovecot (Cyrus was on Debian Sarge, Dovecot is now on a Etch) and I'm quite happy with it. There is just one thing that I'm missing in Dovecot. in Cyrus when users reached 90% of their Quota, a message popped up in their Mailclients, telling them to

As I hijacked a thread... I thought I'd start this new one. Yes, shame on me. Karanbir Singh wrote: > John Hinton wrote: >> As a side, I could see blossoming a Wiki area specific to email which might >> eventually fill out to an extremely robust set of how to's for installations >> of what amounts to being some of the very hardest things that I've >>