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Hello, I have some (possibly very simple) questions about subscriptions: I store my old mails in /home/oldmails/ in one Maildir where I have only read-only permissions (I cannot delete, create or modify any files). Under thunderbird, I can successfully log in and read my new mails, but I cannot subscribe (?) within thunderbird to oldmails (it is grey not black as other folders). What did I do wrong? What...

Hello, I'm now dealing with funny problem. I try to use Dovecot (2.1.rc1, actually) and mbox format to store old mailing, to keep logic of "one folder = one file". If I'd choose Maildir, I'd be able to create hierarchical folders (like "OldMail -> Maillists -> Dovecot"), and in fact on disk such a folders would be stored as real folders with dots in

Hello All, I have been still struggling with the read only maildir and I think I found something: dovecot wants to rename a file but I/it have/has no rights to do that: dovecot: 2007-05-04 21:30:14 Error: IMAP(bela): rename(/home/store/oldmails/.personal/cur/1154939281.00005.pc1.S=1879:2,S, /home/store/oldmails/.personal/new/1178307014.P8610Q0M347618.pc1) failed: Permission denied Why dovecot wants to rename it? It is really a read only directory. Regards, A. ______________________________________________ 2600 ?ll?sb?l Te is tal?lsz...

Hi, I'm going to migrate my company-mailserver to new hardware. I would like to take the opportunity to archive some older mail. But I would like to have it still accessible, would this be possible with dovecot ? I mean, I would like to put that older mail from different users (I got about 50 users) on some read-only media but mount that media in the users mail-dirs. That way I will have

Hi, We're about to migrate to dovecot (2.1.7 on wheezy), and I have a question about mail migration. Our 'old' imap mailserver will remain available, and has the same usernames/passwords as our future dovecot mailserver. The question: Is there an easy way to make the old mailboxes available under a subfolder (for example 'oldmail') in the mailboxes on the new mailserver?

Hi, I'm using dovecot 1.1.3 on FreeBSD 6.3, x86, files are on NFS, except control and index files, which are local, on UFS2. It's moderately loaded, there are usually not more than 30 clients simultaneously. dovecot runs fine for 3-10 days, then people can't connect any more, and dovecot says: Nov 18 13:20:44 dizzy dovecot-auth: pam_ldap: ldap_simple_bind Can't contact LDAP

Hi, If this is a redundant post I apologize. I am running 2.4.20 on what has been a very stable Athlon machine for months, tried to move a 2 GB file from an ext2 partition to an ext3 and kjournald crashed. Here are the last reminants of my shell scrollback: [*ROOT* mofo /mnt/sda1/mysql/fd 641 ] ll oldmail/ total 2363288 -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 2147483647 Jan 23 18:04 maillog.MYD

While migrating users from Cyrus IMAP v2.3.14 to Dovecot 2.2.12 (compiled from source) dsync aborts with a backtrace on some (maybe 15 out of 800) mail accounts: (same error happens wiht or without -f flag) dsync -D -v -o mail_fsync=never mirror -f -R -u user at domain imapc: <snip> dsync(user at domain.com): Debug: brain M: in state=sync_mails dsync(user at domain.com): Debug: brain M:

Hi, If this is a redundant post I apologize. I am running 2.4.20 on what has been a very stable Athlon machine for months, tried to move a 2 GB file from an ext2 partition to an ext3 and kjournald crashed. Here are the last reminants of my shell scrollback: [*ROOT* mofo /mnt/sda1/mysql/fd 641 ] ll oldmail/ total 2363288 -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 2147483647 Jan 23 18:04 maillog.MYD

> I do know that this little box of horrors has 200-300MB mbox INBOXes on an > ext3 filesystem formatted in 2005. I am very nervous about converting them to > Maildir at this point. Fortunately, it just involves reformatting the data and a little reconmfiguration of dovcot. If you can find the tool and disk space, it's well worth doing. Of course, when running a proverbial

Hi all, My setup: INBOX -> /var/spool/mail/user directories -> /home/user/Maildir it works with Netscape, but squirrel mail shows only subfolder content. nothing in INBOX. any ideas? Gasha

...one (maildir based), both are version 2.0.13. I'm using dsync: oldserver# dsync -u username backup ssh root at newserver dsync -u username Everything is working like a charm but when it tries to convert compressed folder I got an error: dsync-local(username): Error: Failed to sync mailbox OldMails/2008.gz: Mailbox isn't a valid mbox file. Both old and new installations support compressed folder via zlib plugin. If I'm not wrong dsync doesn't support compressed folder, does it? And, if so, are there any chances to have dsync support gzip'ed folders in the (near) future?...

> I've tried changing how I symbolically linked the mailboxes, i.e., > creating a sub-directory that is symlinked into the user's mail/ > directory versus symbolically linking the mbox files themselves, etc. > No dice. Permissions are fine. I've even resorted to changing the > index locking strategy, to no avail. I've tested my setup by symlinking both folders and

Hi, I upgraded (in place upgrade, preserving my dovecot configs) to a newer release of ubuntu in order to gain access to slightly newer Dovecot release and be able to use Dsync for migration from Cyrus, here is my doveconf -n output: # 2.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.5.0-44-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 12.10 auth_debug = yes auth_default_realm = whatever.com auth_master_user_separator

Hi all: I am new to e-mail servers and I am evaluating Dovecot. Not really the best combination. 8-) I am trying to find a balance between legal data retention requirements and online mailbox size. I do not want huge online mailboxes, as doing offline, rotating data backups could then take forever (among other reasons). I would rather avoid online (cloud) backups (data protection etc.). If I

Hi, I'm trying to migrate IMAP mails from dovecot 1.1.20apple0.5 (osx) to dovecot 2.2.33.2 (ubuntu). I'm using "doveadm backup" to migrate my data. It works fine for all subfolders, but the root INBOX stay empty on the new server. I suspect a problem related with hierarchy separator ("." on previous server, "/" on new) or with the namespace prefix (set to

Hello, How should I remove a mailbox from a dovecot cluster? I have two dovecot in a cluster. I tried to remove one user's mailbox with theses commands I found with a little google search: doveadm flags add -u user at domain.tld "\\Deleted" ALL doveadm expunge -u user at domain.tld mailbox "*" DELETED doveadm purge -u user at domain.tld rm -fr

I'm running beta7 on two machines, with maildir on NFS. I have lockd running on all machines. I've found that Dovecot is highly unstable with NFS when accessing a mailbox on more than one machine at the same time. Both dovecot machines have: mmap_disable = yes lock_method = fcntl NFS is version 3, exported from a third linux machine. All machines are running 2.6.9 kernel. Any ideas