similar to: POP to IMAP Transition

Hey Guys, I want to transition from Merak to Postfix/Dovecot. I am not sure how to begin. I have been reading the different Howtos - cocktail of services to Postfix like ClamAV, Spamassissin, Greylisting, Jamm, SquirrelMail. The thing is that I want stable IMAP mail. Here is what I want to do: a. Stand alone linux box for email only - 25 users b. provide IMAP and web c. provide SSL

Hi, i've setup samba on one of our solaris boxes, it was working fine, but suddenly now it does not start. here is the error message from the log.smb file: [2000/02/11 09:42:51, 0] locking/shmem_sysv.c:sysv_shm_open(566) Can't create or use semaphore [1]. Error was No space left on device [2000/02/11 09:42:51, 0] locking/locking.c:locking_init(174) ERROR: Failed to initialise share

Actually, it is a frustration: The client does not work, have tried Opera mail and Outlook, to receive mail. the client can send, but not receive. I know the mail is sitting in the user account Maildir ready to be picked up. Dovecot "compiles" fine. What am I doing wrong? Someone please help me, I know it is something simple. I have racked the net trying to find a solution, but

I have the results of a rating study in which ~30 participants rated a subset of 20 items on 25 different dimensions. I would like to perform PCA on these ratings to reduce the 25 different dimensions. However, instead of doing this on the mean ratings for each item, I would like to perform the PCA at the level of individual ratings. I am assuming that in order to do this I have to specify the

Hello List, I am back again and I think I am edging closer to getting a solution. I have done some modifications and now dovecot gives me a different error message than before.... Here is what I have for the password_query and user_query password_query = SELECT popbox.cleartext AS password FROM popbox, domain \ WHERE popbox.local_part = 'eddie' AND popbox.domain_name =

Hi All, I'm currently doing nightly full backups of /home. I'm not sure if a full back up is the best way to do backups. I know with my fileserver i do weekly full backup and daily incremental which would file on those type of files. I guess my question to the group is, how do you guys backup Maildir? whats the best way of doing it? -- Gabe Granger Pancentric results-driven

Hello Everyone, I am playing with the $subject matter using 1.0alpha4, and thanks to the archives, I lifted this one from Alexander Shikoff off and used it in my setup. auth default { mechanisms = plain user = root passdb pam { args = pop3 } passdb sql { args = /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf }

Any *BSD user on this list already having a means of rotating the dovecot logfile? What signal number do I need to send to the daemon to reopen its logfile? -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html DISCLAIMER: See http://www.wananchi.com/bms/terms.php -- +======================================================================+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington

When I attempted to import my Contacts list into dovecot, my mail client told me that the IMAP server did not support "Special" folders. Is there a way to to do the contacts, or sync up Contacts & Calendar from a database or something else? I'm using both Thunderbird and Outlook. Thanks. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

I have seen a few suggestions on how to address the issue of a system employing both real and virtual users and domains. Is there any definitive solution as to how this should be accomplished? The system I am construction will have several hundred users, both real and virtual, and probably seven domains. I plan on using MySQL to handle the user names and passwords. -- Gerard "Seen it

Hello List, This is dovecot 1.0.0 on FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE. I did not provide this information before:-) I am back again and I think I am edging closer to getting a solution. I have done some modifications and now dovecot gives me a different error message than before.... Here is what I have for the password_query and user_query password_query = SELECT popbox.cleartext AS password FROM

Hi guys, How can i change the login greeting for dovecot whenever someone telnets to it. I tried putting login_greeting = Test Banner at the end of my dovecot.conf.:When i try restart the service it fails. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Dear List, Is the latest test version suitable for production systems? Our current servers use 0.99 on FC4 and we would like to add shared folders via the test version. Has anyone migrated this way before? Thanks, Gavin. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E ghenry at suretecsystems.com Open Source. Open

Hi all, How do I get to previous versions of the dovecot source code? I wanted to download dovecot-1.0.beta7, but can't find it via the web, only the latest version (beta8). It's probably obvious how to do this...but I'm not seeing it. Thanks much! Jackie ---- Jackie Hunt ACNS Voice: (970)

Hi all I seem to have this problem whereby if I delete an email, then the deleted email does not appear in the Trash folder. I tried setting dovecot mail_debug = yes, but I find in syslog, mail.log etc that there is very limited information. If anyone could assit, I would be most greatful. Kind Regards Brent Clark P.s. I use Thunderbird as the mail client

Hello :) I had a working Dovecot 0.99.x with the following dovecot.conf: ### ssl_disable = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no login = imap verbose_proctitle = yes default_mail_env = maildir:%h/Maildir auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd /etc/passwd auth_passdb = shadow /etc/shadow auth_user = root protocols = imap pop3 ### Then I've downloaded, compiled and installed

Although everything appears to be working fine, I see the following entry in my log file each time someone logs on via the IMAPS service (all other services are disables: POP, IMAP, etc.): ========== Sep 6 02:57:00 mgw1 dovecot: Logins with login process UID xxxx (user someone at example.com) not permitted (see login_user in config file). ========== Any idea what this log entry means and is

I was just wondering if anyone was using or aware of a program to create MySQL Data Bases for use with Dovecot. For Postfix, there is the 'Postfixadmin' application. I have not seen anything similar for Dovecot and was wondering if one existed. My system consists of all virtual users. -- Gerard Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.

Hi all, I have some trouble: multiple copies of mail and error messages: IMAP(contact): UIDs broken with partial sync in mbox file /var/mail/contact Fedora core 5 x86 - dovecot-1.0-0.beta8.2.fc5 Can you help me ? -- thanks, Eric ____________________________________________ Cet email a ete verifie par ILLICOWEB Anti-virus Clamav / Anti-Spam Spamassassin

I haven't tried this yet; however, I would like to know if it would work. Using Postfix, I am setting up numerous virtual users. These users obviously do not have an account on the mail server. I have created a "domain.net" account. Assuming that Postfix is properly set up to deliver to the specified accounts, which will be held under the "domain.net" directory, will this