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hi I read ( I think in dovecot wiki) that ext2 or ext3 fs on a 2.4 kernel can get slow due to the number of files in a directory. Does anyone know if kernel 2.6 has similar limitation? I'm not at that point now, but before the box goes live, I'm wondering if I should resolve that. Glenn

Hi I'm getting this error with my attempt at setting up dovecot for virtual mail accounts: Failed to create storage with data: /home/vhostpath/usersname/Maildir/ I cant establish any cause. I dont think its permissions as it was saying 'Permission denied' till I fixed that and the UID and GID are those of the directories owner. I was prompted bythe log files to set the minimum and

Hi all - Does anyone know how far off beta2 is from getting into debian testing? thx Glenn

Hi all - Im new to dovecot and actually all things email serverish. I spent last week wrestling with exim4, and this week its dovecots turn. I'm trying to connect as an imap user (from evolution) and not actually able to make a successful login. I have default_pass_scheme=PLAIN, and am using pass authentication in evolution client. Its the only one available after it queries the server for

Im experimenting with putting all my virtual users mail under 1 directory with belonging to a system user created for the purpose. The mode on the directory (and subdirectories) is 770. I keep all my virtual users details in a postgres database. My interpretation of the wiki documentation is that if the user_db query returns a uid column and a gid column containing the numeric uid and gid of the

Hi All - I have a dovecot imap server that I've been running merrily for 6 mths now - the 2 clients that are used on it are evolution and outlook 2003 - I daily have timeout "closed connection" issues with either of these. I have the outlook idle workaround enabled, but I dont think thats the issue - can anyone give me a hint how I can start to trouble shoot this? Thanks Glenn

Hi All I intermittently get these kind of errors when connecting to my beta2 imap dovecot: reported error 0x8004df0b:'Outlook is unable to download folder (null) from the imap email server for account mymailhost.com'. Error the server is unavailable. Receiveing Reported error (0x800CC0F):'The connection to the server was interrupted' While these are from outlook - I often get

Hi - im trawling through my config trying to reduce chances of timeouts etc - I use postgres for all the dovecot and exim4 authentication and location of mail directories etc - and found that by eliminating logging (or reducing to almost none) the queries invovled have gone from >500ms to <3ms - Just wondering if I'll get similar performance gains with dovecot (which is set to be verbose