similar to: Sending email using IMAP

Here's a kind of "outside the box" thought. Why not extend the IMAP protocol to send email? Instead of having to use SMTP if an addition were made to the IMAP protocol then IMAP could transport outgoing mail to the server the same way it moves messages to the server. On the server end Dovecot would deliver outgoing email to the host MTA via localhost:25. The advantage would be

I'm advocating for a change in the IMAP specification to allow outgoing email to be sent over the same connection as incoming rather that having to separately configure outgoing SMTP email. There are two significant advantages to this concept. 1) It would greatly simplify setup for clients as they would only have to configure one connection rather than two. 2) Spam reduction by

Got sort of a strange problem on one email account. Everything works fine with Thunderbird/IMAP showing the correct unread message count. But on my DroidX smartphone one of my email accounts always shows one unread message, but I can't bring any unread messages up. It's like there's something there making it think there's a message when there isn't. The email client is K-9

So Timo, Have you considered the idea of storing all the email in a MySQL database? Seems to me that MySQL could somplify all the backend stuff that everyone struggles with and with replication one could create very massive and reliable systems. What would it take to use MySQL that way?

Hello, I'm tasked with establishing a persistent SSH connection across a very unreliable link, for a remote port forward (always port 2217). I figured I'd use ServerAliveInterval to make sure that the ssh(1) process dies when the connection appears down, and I use systemd to restart it in this case. This works fine. What does not work fine, however, is the server-side. If the connection

Hello, I am using virt-manager 0.9.4 on a Debian unstable system (libvirt 0.9.12) to connect to a libvirtd via SSH running on a Debian testing system (also version 0.9.12), and I have a problem using virt-manager, which first takes ages to connect, then freezes. The SSH connection is top-quality, the hosts are next to each other and connected by Gigabit Ethernet. virsh connections work fine.

Hi list, I understand that dovecot's deliver does a little more than deliver: it also updates the dovecot metadata stored with each Maildir. Thus, if I use deliver as opposed to procmail's internal Maildir delivery, it seems that the IMAP server later has less work to do since the metadata is can use are up to date. Doing this, however, incurs an extra process for each mail delivered. I

Hey folks, As most of everyone, I use OpenSSH for almost everything and whenever I can: backups, sync, Git, configuration management, and of course console sessions. So much for an intro ;) My laptop and I roam between three networks, though sometimes I leave the laptop at the office overnight, or hop over to the third site for an hour or two. I'd like to find a way to configure OpenSSH (or

Dear list, I am running dovecot 1.2.15 on a Debian server. One user reports continuous problems synchronising her mailbox via IMAP (offlineimap, via SSH tunnel or SSL socket). It seems that she has a large, locally-created message, but the uplink bandwidth seems to be not enough to push it before dovecot times out the APPEND command. The error/exception happens inside offlineimap's Python

That's a good point. DHCP allows you to set DNS search parameters. So as long as each location sets different search, "ssh fishbowl" will in fact resolve to the proper local FQDN. On Monday, December 22, 2014, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 4:26 AM, martin f krafft <madduck at madduck.net > <javascript:;>> wrote:

Hi, we are using dovecot IMAP in a complex virtual setup with almost 4000 accounts; postfix hands over to deliver for local delivery into a home directory as stored in the SQL database. That's /srv/vmail/$DOMAIN/$LOCALPART for most of them, but I'd rather not hardcode this scheme anywhere as it's in SQL. By a policy change, we need to insert a filter in this chain and the filter must

Dear list, I am experimenting with a new mail handling setup and it involves a single IMAP folder with just under 70'000 messages. When OfflineIMAP connects to the server, the imap process starts to eat up a lot of memory: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 15607 madduck 35 19 283m 244m 239m D 16.9 49.3 0:09.96 imap On the contrary, when

also sprach Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com> [2014-12-23 07:50 +0100]: > If it's not "in the local network", then it shouldn't get the > subdomain of the internal network, and you've got a DNS "views" or > DHCP configuration issue. While the machine is not at the office, other machines can resolve fishbowl.office to a valid IP? that's the

also sprach Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com> [2014-12-22 14:43 +0100]: > The problem, I think, isn't that you have an entry in all three. It's > that you have a *shortened* hostname that is identical in all 3 DNS > domains. If your DNS admins have gracefully set the local environments > to each be on their own subdomain, and that subdomain is *first* in > DHCP

OK - here's whay I need to make it work for my Linuxconf compatible authentication system. First - a question: Will this work? I can find docs on "virtualfile. auth virtualfile { mechanisms = plain digest-md5 userdb = passwd-file /etc/vmail/passwd.%d passdb = passwd-file /etc/vmail/shadow.%d user = root } Then - since the dmain name selects the passwd file, if there were a

Hi folks, According to the wiki,? it's considered a feature of Dovecot and its ability to support multiple authentication sources that "if the password doesn't match in the first database, it checks the next one". ?) http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/MultipleDatabases I think it's great that Dovecot allows auth sources to be stacked like this, but I am not sold on the

Package: logcheck Version: 1.3.4 Severity: normal I am running debian/testing and just upgraded to logcheck 1.3.4 and it started reporting the error: mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/lock/logcheck': Permission denied I created the directory and chown'd it to logcheck and it seems fine now. Looking at the changelog, I see something was purposefully changed, so I imagine I

I am a bit at a loss here with Sieve (pigeonhole) and the spamtest extension. I am using Dovecot 2.1.7 (backported to Debian squeeze), which comes with Pigeonhole 0.3.0. Messages are scanned with SpamAssassin, which adds a header like X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=84.6 required=5.0 tests=? and so I configured spamtest in conf.d/90-plugin.conf like so: sieve_spamtest_status_type = score

I'd like to make a suggestion. Let's drop the Alpha and come out with an official version 1.0. Here's my reasons. The 0.9x version are obsolete and people should be using the 1.0 Alpha versions which seem to me to do everything the previous versions did and more. It's as full featured and stable as all other IMAP servers and in my opinion is ready to be called 1.0. The

Hi, I'm quite a fan of logcheck and have been using it since setting up my sites, and I recently saw madduck's call for help on logcheck at debaday.[0] How can I help? [0] http://debaday.debian.net/2009/07/19/logcheck-brilliantly-simple-log-monitoring/ P.S. Please CC me on replies, thanks! -- Zak B. Elep -- 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D I like the idea of 256