similar to: new configure-option --disable-index

Hello, is dotlock supposed to work with NFS? I noticed that the default-locking method causes problems even with nfslockd started. Regards Marten

Hello, I found a posting on the mailing list from 2008 "Adding new storage backend to Dovecot" while searching for POP3 and IMAP servers, that allow to use a NoSQL backend rather than a traditional file system. The problem with traditional filesystems is, that they are very limited. You cannot easily extend it, even with RAID 10 all messages may be lost due to a RAID controller

Hello, from a server where neither a rsync daemon nor ssh is running I'm trying to backup the whole data with ftp. So my idea was to call rsync like this: rsync -v -a 'ftp://1.2.3.4/' my_folder But this gives me: ftp: unknown host ftp: unknown host ftp: Unknown host rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code

Hello, today our dovecot imap server died. The following message appeared in the logfile: dovecot: Mar 23 07:00:58 Error: pipe() failed: Too many open files We have one dovecot instance for pop3 and one for imap, so while the pop3-service was still available, the imap-service was not running any more. I've seen a lots of users keeping there imap-connections idle for hours, often more

Hello, I noticed, that whenever I install a package on CentOS 5.x, rpms for multiple architectures are installed: yum install sqlite-devel Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: centos.intergenia.de * updates: centos.intergenia.de * addons: centos.intergenia.de * extras: centos.intergenia.de base 100%

Hello, I'm a bit afraid of users, the might slow down the server because of search requests to the imap-server on very large mailboxes. Even with a performant index, this could cause a lot of cpu and i/o-load. Is it possible to include the login-name in the imap process, so that a "ps ax" doesn't just give "imap", but e.g. "imap test at example.com"?

Hello, is it possible the change the folder separator from "." to "/"? Users shall be able to have folders like "Junk/aol.com/*". Regards Marten

Hi, I'm working with dovecot 1.0.beta2 for pop3 only and have set index=memory, so no indizes are created on the disk. pop3_uidl_format is set to %f. The maildirs are located on an nfs-share. So generally, this setup is very similar to what qmail-popup and qmail-pop3d does. However, everytime I'm switching from qmail-pop3d to dovecot, the system load increases from less than 2 to more

Hello, I'm trying to do backups with rsync through ssh. This is what I wrote yet: src="/vrmd/webserver/" today=`date +%F` #link_dest="root@vm2:/vrmd/admin/backup/web/2004-09-05" link_dest="../2004-09-05" dest="root@vm2:/vrmd/admin/backup/web/$today" rsync -av -e ssh --delete --link-dest=$link_dest $src $dest in 2004-09-05 (on the dest-server) is the

Hello, I'm currently experiencing, that 0 messages are shown at the pop3-prompt: list +OK 0 messages: . But the cur-folder containes 74 files. How can this happen? Why aren't they removed physically? Regards Marten Lehmann

Hello, for some reason dovecot doesn't start up. I'm using the default values in dovecot.conf, just changed the login_user, disabled ssl and ran sbin/dovecot, but nothing happens. No error's, I can't find any logs, no daemon anywhere, no ports bound... I don't know where to look and whatfor. I compiled with --enable-debug, but there's no extra output. Any ideas?

Hello, we have a large base of mailbox users and while pop3-connections are usually closed after the download of all mails, I noticed hundrets of imap-connections kept idle by the users. This is surely according to the idea behind imap, but I'm a bit afraid of overwhelming memory consumption if there are too many imap-connections opened at the same time. Is the index file kept in memory

Hello, I've heard of both and I already tested and installed both, but I'm not sure which one is better, since both just seem to work and I can't see a difference, except from the point how it's set up and configured. Where are the drawbacks of each one, where are the benefits? I also tested cyrus before, but cyrus is not working well with maildirs. I'm not that into

Hello, I'd really like to define the finale libexecdir and localstatedir through the configure-script. But the Makefiles are rewriting them. Not $libexecdir is used, but $pkglibexecdir. And $pkglibexecdir is always defined as $libexecdir/dovecot. But I don't want this trailing "/dovecot". Same with localstatedir. I want dovecot to use a certain path. But to this path, a

Hello, I'm using dovecot-1.0.beta3. When I shutdown dovecot (kill -term on the master-pid) the main process disappears, but all the child processes still remain. Why doesn't dovecot kill them as I shutdown the master-process? When I shutdown mysql, all child processes will be shutdown, too. When I shutdown apache, all child processes willbe shutdown, too. Thats what I expect on every

Hello, I created a folder inbox.Test.Try through IMAP. LIST shows me the folder INBOX.Test.Try instead, but in the filesystem it's created inbox.Test.Try. Now every select, examine or rename gives me NO Mailbox doesn't exist INBOX.Test.Try. Seems that inbox is mapped uppercase everywhere except at "create". Regards Marten

Hello, as our mail server load increases every day, I plan to scale the single mailserver in differnt units: 1x big storage server for all mailboxes, folders exported through NFS 1x smtp for mail-in (queue local, messages on storage server) 1x pop3/imap to retrieve the messages (config local, messages on storage server) Since we're using maildir only, there's no problem to get the

Hello, I searched a while to find out, if there is an sftp-server implementation which provides an option similar to the defaultroot of proftpd. A typical use would be: DefaultRoot = ~ The option does the follwing: Once the use logs in, it determines the home directory of the user .ie /home/u1234 and takes this as the users root. The user cannot escape that root (he can not look at /tmp

Hello, I build dovecot tih --with-rawlog and created a folder dovecot.rawlog inside the root-dir of the mailbox (same level as new, cur and tmp). For testing purposes I set the env MAIL to the maildir and started libexec/imap. This generally works, but I can't find the promised logs of input and output. Where do I have to look for them? Regards Marten

Hello, I deleted a message by storing the \Deleted flag and called expunge. The message was deleted then, but in the file dovecot-uidlist the filename of that message is still listed, even after logging out and in again, doing select and check. When will this file be updated? Regards Marten