similar to: Simultaneous POP login - inbox corrumption

Hi, I'm trying to do a setup where IMAP and POP users see different INBOX' Like described on the virtual folder wiki page: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Virtual However, for now, I'm stuck with the checkpassword passdb and prefetch userdb So I can't parameterize the result on %s like the example with MySQL does. So I thought of having to different checkpassword scripts:

Hi all, We are having some problems getting a solaris 9(sparc) file server running samba 2.2.2 to authenticate aginst a windows NT 4 PDC. Let me say first that this was all working at one time, then we had some data corrumption on our NFS mounted /usr/local, and had to restore from tape. Due to some issues with solaris ufsdump and ufsrestore, stuff was not quite put back properly. We do

In Dovecot 0.99, I recall somewhere I read it was possible for INBOX to be both a Maildir and an mbox in the same configuration (either automatically detected, or depending on the existence in a different location). Perhaps I was wrong, I'm not sure. Any way, I now became interested in this sort of setup: Most users have their spool an mbox in /var/mail/<username>, and then they

Hi, Since the 23rd of March, we encounter mailbox corruption for some users (15 out of 5000) using POP mainly via Thunderbird. Symptoms are : -users can login but fail to receive new mails and fail to read their inbox -Dovecot.log : ar 29 11:00:06 Error: POP3(user_login): Couldn't init INBOX: Mailbox isn't a valid mbox -The mailbox start with either 'FFrom or

Hi Is it safe to use IMAP and POP3 simultaneously to access the same inbox (using Maildir structure)? Thanks! Stanis?aw -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 833 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20180228/c8f47500/attachment.sig>

Thanks for your response, So, how do those rotation scripts work in concept? People are still able to access their old inboxes, but it just moves them to an archived state? On 5/7/2020 9:40 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > On 5/7/2020 11:39 AM, Asai wrote: >> What's a reasonable inbox size?? Is 20+ GB reasonable and nothing to >> worry about? >> > Great question. >

Hi, I was wondering whether anybody has managed to get Dovecot 1.0 to store INBOX as Maildir and folders as mbox. I've tried something like default_mail_env = mbox:/folders/user/mail:INBOX=maildir:/inboxes/maildir/user:INDEX=/indexes/user but it doesn't seem to work (treats INBOX as mbox). I'm hoping to move some INBOXes from mbox on local disk to Maildir on nicely-mirrored NetApp

On 5/7/2020 11:39 AM, Asai wrote: > What's a reasonable inbox size?? Is 20+ GB reasonable and nothing to > worry about? > Great question. At my firm, we wrote rotation tools that work for mbox format to rotate inboxes monthly if they are over a certain size.? We also do the sent items folders. We find that large inboxes are bad for the server and bad for the client because the MUAs

On Thu, 7 May 2020, Asai wrote: > I have several users who have inboxes that are over 20 GB. > > As email admins, how do you handle inboxes that are so large? Do you use > mailbox types that have better performance like dbox? We're using maildir. > > What's a reasonable inbox size? Is 20+ GB reasonable and nothing to worry > about? It depends on what you consider

On Fri, 8 May 2020, asai at globalchangemusic.org wrote: > >> It depends on what you consider reasonable. >> >> The processing time of file operation that iterates through a mailbox >> will generally go up proportinately with size. If you do a text search >> without some indexing system like Solr, it will take a very long time. >> >> If the mailbox

Hi, replying to my own issue: The dsync crash seems to be triggered when there are emails to copy in both directions, and it's fairly clear from comments in the code that it should be releasing a read lock before trying to grab a write lock. A work-around for the crash was doing a one-way sync manually. This allowed the process to complete and my setup is now replicating properly. I guess

Here is an example with APPEND $ /usr/lib/dovecot/imap S1: * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 ? MOVE NOTIFY SPECIAL-USE] Logged in as guilhem C1: a1 NOTIFY SET (INBOXES (MessageNew MessageExpunge FlagChange)) S1: a1 OK NOTIFY completed (0.000 secs) $ /usr/lib/dovecot/imap S2: * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 ? MOVE NOTIFY SPECIAL-USE] Logged in as guilhem C2: a2 APPEND

There are three applications that have their mitts on files on my mail server, which is running AIXV5.3 and UWIMAP and mbox format. The mail folders and INBOXES are native to that machine, but also are NFS exported to a login server and a mailing list server. All three machines are running the lockd daemon. Everybody wants to lock differently 1) procmail (delivering for sendmail), which

Greetings, I have several users who have inboxes that are over 20 GB. Lately I have noticed Dovecot logs say it's taking over 30 seconds to sync their mailboxes. As email admins,? how do you handle inboxes that are so large? Do you use mailbox types that have better performance like dbox? We're using maildir. What's a reasonable inbox size?? Is 20+ GB reasonable and nothing to

Hi guys, I have a system whereby I am forced to deal with mbox files of /var/spool/mail/user1 (mbox text file) /var/spool/mail/user2 (mbox text file) etc Their mail homes are maildir format in: /home/user1/Maildir/{cur,new,tmp} /home/user2/Maildir/{cur,new,tmp} etc I can set things up so that the mbox inbox is shown using namespaces: namespace private { separator = / prefix =

Hi, Is there a configuration element that would allow me to change the dot-lock name for the user's /var/mail inbox when it is locked? dovecot (correctly) acquires <username>.lock, but I'm having a problem with procmail where some obscure code path is preventing procmail's acquisition of a lock when it's that default name in /var/mail. The issue is not permissions

On Sun, 19 Jul 2015 at 19:21:16 +0200, Guilhem Moulin wrote: > The "subtree" mailbox filter has the same problem, but the > non-parameterized ones ("inboxes", "personal" and "subscribed") work > fine. Actually there are further problem with the INBOX namespace, to which I'm subscribed: $ /usr/lib/dovecot/imap S1: * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY

On 5/7/2020 12:43 PM, Asai wrote: > Thanks for your response, > > So, how do those rotation scripts work in concept? > > People are still able to access their old inboxes, but it just moves > them to an archived state? We rotate the folder to another name with the date like INBOX-2020-05-07 with instructions how to refresh their folder list (or even modify the .subscription file

> We rotate the folder to another name with the date like INBOX-2020-05-07 > with instructions how to refresh their folder list (or even modify the > .subscription file for the). > > We also cull Trash, deleted items, and spam folders automatically as well. > > Regards, > KAM That makes sense.? So you're saying that very large inboxes are generally bad for mobile

Hello. After we switched the format from mbox to mdbox on our dovecot (version 2.1.9) servers last week, some of our users were missing the subfolders of their inboxes. So far we thought that with the mbox format it is not possible to have mail folders containing both messages and subfolders. Now we know that there is one exception from this rule: the inbox. With mbox format dovecot