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Hello, I've got a Postfix/Dovecot server setup. Currently Dovecot is version 2.3.6, and it's using Maildir storage. The mailbox is: mail_home = /home/vmail/mailboxes/%d/%n mail_location = maildir:~/mail:LAYOUT=fs I'm wanting to convert from Maildir to sdbox. I looked at: https://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat I was initially thinking mdbox but that's multiple messages per file, which I do not believe is what I want. Am I correct that in the sdbox format if a single message file is corrupted only that message is corrupt and not the rest of the m...

On 8/14/2018 12:55 AM, Aki Tuomi wrote: > > On 13.08.2018 19:51, Daniel Miller wrote: >> When doing a filesystem backup of an moderate sdbox mailstore (300GB) >> - are there any files that can be safely excluded from the backup? >> Like *.log or *.backup?? Or are they all "vital" for recovery? >> >> I'm already excluding the sdbox/virtual folders as it looks like they >> get created and update...

in a recent post, sven made a clear/cogent arg for sdbox vs maildir > While Maildir seems to be an obvious choice, it has some hidden > performance impacts, namely it relies heavily on information encoded in > the filename, which results in a big overhead in meta-operations, > because Dovecot needs to stat() every file in a directory to gat...

...hat indexes are regenerated when a user logs in via imap, so e-mail access will be "slower" after a power outage / kernel crash, but everything should work as expected (TM). Are we missing something? - We are evaluating migrating from maildir to dbox. There are two alternatives: sdbox and mdbox. Reading about dbox in the wiki (http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox) we see that using a ram disk for indexes for mdbox is a really bad idea: /"Note that with dbox the Index files actually contain significant data which is held nowhere else. Index files for both *single-...

When doing a filesystem backup of an moderate sdbox mailstore (300GB) - are there any files that can be safely excluded from the backup?? Like *.log or *.backup?? Or are they all "vital" for recovery? I'm already excluding the sdbox/virtual folders as it looks like they get created and updated as needed. -- Daniel

Hi welcome I want to set some virtual users with sdbox mail_location so I return in password_query and user_query extra field mail which contains sdbox:/var/mail/example.com/user:INDEX=/var/mail_indexes/example.com/user:ALT=/var/mail_altstorage/example.com/user and then when i send email to user at example.com I see all sdbox dirs created but when i l...

I'm implementing sdbox. In conf.d/10-mail.conf, with "maildir:" mail_location = maildir:/my_mailbox_path/%d/%n mail gets stored in /my_mailbox_path/%d/%n/new/ With "sdbox:" mail_location = sdbox:/my_mailbox_path/%d/%n mail gets stored in /my_mailbox_path/%d/%n/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails. How...

Hey Aki, DIRNAME with empty value has no effect, just like with FULLDIRNAME. "~/sdbox" instead of "~/" doesn't change that.. Greetings, Hativ Am 07.07.2018 um 20:24 schrieb Aki Tuomi: > Does it work better if you use > > mail_location=sdbox:~/sdbox:DIRNAME= > > > > --- > Aki Tuomi > Dovecot oy > > -------- Original message -----...

On 14.08.2018 21:23, Daniel Miller wrote: > On 8/14/2018 12:55 AM, Aki Tuomi wrote: >> >> On 13.08.2018 19:51, Daniel Miller wrote: >>> When doing a filesystem backup of an moderate sdbox mailstore (300GB) >>> - are there any files that can be safely excluded from the backup? >>> Like *.log or *.backup?? Or are they all "vital" for recovery? >>> >>> I'm already excluding the sdbox/virtual folders as it looks like they >>> ge...

...l(paulproteus): Error: dbox /home/paulproteus/Maildir/dbox/mailboxes/realmail/dbox-Mails: Unexpectedly lost uid=337460 dsync-local(paulproteus): Error: msg guid lookup failed: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2012-02-02 11:02:12] dsync-local(paulproteus): Warning: sdbox /home/paulproteus/Maildir/dbox/mailboxes/realmail/dbox-Mails: Rebuilding index dsync-local(paulproteus): Warning: sdbox /home/paulproteus/Maildir/dbox/mailboxes/realmail/dbox-Mails: Ignoring invalid filename 130608.broken dsync-local(paulproteus): Warning: sdbox /home/paulproteus/Maildir/dbox/mailb...

...m considering to move my mails from maildir/mbox to mdbox. One of my doubts is: how can I restore my mails when something terrribly wrong happens. I understand that I should use doveadm import "backup_location" "mailbox" all. So I try to import with: doveadm -v import "sdbox:~/Mail/dbox-temp/spamcop/reports/" "#Dbox/spamcop/reports" all #Dbox namespace were defined as: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- namespace { hidden = no inbox = no list = yes location = mdbox:~/Mail/Dbox prefix = "#Dbox/"...

Logs: Jun 5 06:02:25 bubba dovecot: imap(dmiller at amfes.com)<25877><IjkkJZOKPvKsOk9d>: Opening DB (RO) /var/mail/amfes.com/dmiller/sdbox/xapian-indexes/db_f2857830c70c844e2f1d00003bc41c5f Jun 5 06:02:25 bubba dovecot: imap(dmiller at amfes.com)<25877><IjkkJZOKPvKsOk9d>: FTS Xapian: FLAG=AND Jun 5 06:02:25 bubba dovecot: imap(dmiller at amfes.com)<25877><IjkkJZOKPvKsOk9d>: FTS Xapian: Query= (subject:"...

Hello, I had to restore a mailserver from a backup to replace a system with problems that is still live. I did a 1:1 restore as far as possible from a backup, then rsynced the /var/vmail/ directory, where we have all the mailboxes, in sdbox format. So both directories should be the same. After syncing, I started dovecot. I can see the mails until to the point of the backup, but not the newer ones ,although they seem to be present in the "cur" directory. I thought with sdbox it is all in the index files that have been tran...

...ildir. The setup is as follows: mail_uid = mail mail_gid = mail mail_location = maildir:/vhome/%d/home/%n:INDEX=/imap-cache/%d-%n I don't have any namespace setting. Not quite sure what a namespace is or why I need one. This is what I'm trying to run: dsync -u marc at perkel.com backup sdbox:/email/%d/home/%n What I'm hoping to do is do a mass conversion while running. Then shut it down - do a second quick pass - and bring it up in sdbox format. Thanks in advance.

Hi all. I've just installed dovecot v2.1 in a multihomed, multiinstance setup, It took me two days to convert the old v1.1 configs, now everything works like charm! But. :) I have several maildir mailboxes, I decided to use the sdbox storage type instead. I ran into difficoulties using the dsync util. My virtual users are in an OpenLDAP DB on a differnet machine, and I do not have access to the database (I can authenticate the users from ldap, but cannot change or see anything) So it's not easy to do an "online&qu...

...rtual folders do not work" ? > > > > On 2019-06-05 13:08, Daniel Miller via dovecot wrote: >> Logs: >> >> Jun 5 06:02:25 bubba dovecot: >> imap(dmiller at amfes.com)<25877><IjkkJZOKPvKsOk9d>: Opening DB (RO) >> /var/mail/amfes.com/dmiller/sdbox/xapian-indexes/db_f2857830c70c844e2f1d00003bc41c5f >> Jun 5 06:02:25 bubba dovecot: >> imap(dmiller at amfes.com)<25877><IjkkJZOKPvKsOk9d>: FTS Xapian: FLAG=AND >> Jun 5 06:02:25 bubba dovecot: >> imap(dmiller at amfes.com)<25877><IjkkJZOKPvKsOk9d>:...

Hi there, I was doing some testing on sdbox yesterday. Basically I did the following procedure: 1) Create new sdbox; deliver 2 messages into it (u.1, u.2) 2) Create a copy of the index file (no cache file created yet) 3) deliver another message to the mailbox (u.3) 4) copy back index file from stage (2) 5) deliver new mail Then the messag...

Hello Jack, yes, I imagine I'll have to do some work on tuning the block size on cephfs. Thanks for the advise. I knew that using mdbox, messages are not removed but I though that was true in sdbox too. Thanks again. We'll soon do benchmarks of sdbox vs mdbox over cephfs with bluestore backend. We'll have to do some some work on how to simulate user traffic, for writes and readings. That seems troublesome. Thanks for the plugins recommendations. I'll take the change and ask you...

Hey to all, is it possible to get rid of the "dbox-Mails"-folder when using sdbox? Currently my folder structure looks like this (I hope the output from tree would be formatted well): /srv/mail/ ??? example.com ??? ??? user ??????? ??? dovecot-acl-list ??????? ??? dovecot-attributes ??????? ??? dovecot.list.index.log ??????? ??? dovecot.mailbox.log ??????? ??? dovecot-ui...

...ch part exactly of your logs relates to "virtual folders do not work" ? On 2019-06-05 13:08, Daniel Miller via dovecot wrote: > Logs: > > Jun 5 06:02:25 bubba dovecot: imap(dmiller at amfes.com)<25877><IjkkJZOKPvKsOk9d>: Opening DB (RO) /var/mail/amfes.com/dmiller/sdbox/xapian-indexes/db_f2857830c70c844e2f1d00003bc41c5f > Jun 5 06:02:25 bubba dovecot: imap(dmiller at amfes.com)<25877><IjkkJZOKPvKsOk9d>: FTS Xapian: FLAG=AND > Jun 5 06:02:25 bubba dovecot: imap(dmiller at amfes.com)<25877><IjkkJZOKPvKsOk9d>: FTS Xapian: Query= (subject...