similar to: [IDEA] Shared Folders via LDAP Lookups

Dear all, Could this be added to http://dovecot.org/tools/ http://cpan.org/authors/id/G/GH/GHENRY/create_dovecot_shares-1.05 Thanks. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 824887 E ghenry at suretecsystems.com Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

Dear All, As mentioned previously at: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-May/013003.html create_dovecot_shares is now finished. Apologies to all for the time it has taken. Description: "Creating lots of dovecot-shared files, changing permissions and creating symlinks is a pain, especially when dealing with more than a handle of users. create_dovecot_shares helps. It modifies

Dear All, We've been working on this for a client to help create and manage maildir shares, via the dovecot-shared file. Our problems are creating lots of dovecot-shared files and permissions and monitoring new Maildir folders that get added by the user (maybe a better way, would love to know). The tool is almost done, with the docs at:

Hi all, For some reason, dovecot is holding a connection up, so we can't shutdown our directory server. OpenLDAP just sits there waiting for the thread to finish. Our OpenLDAP logs show (binding example and shutdown): connection_input: conn=1 deferring operation: binding daemon: shutdown requested and initiated. conn=1 fd=12 closed (slapd shutdown) slapd shutdown: waiting for 1 threads to

Hi all, Using Beta here, but can't see anything in dovecot.conf for this? Any tips? Gavin. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 824887 E ghenry@suretecsystems.com Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

Hi again, Just testing the ACLs, as one of our clients do not want users to delete or move Sent emails. Following http://wiki.dovecot.org/ACL and creating: /etc/dovecot-acls/Sent with this in it: owner lrsi Works a treat. We love Dovecot! ;-) -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 824887 E ghenry@suretecsystems.com

ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server. Query: FETCH 1 (FLAGS UID RFC822.SIZE INTERNALDATE BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS (Date To Cc From Subject X-Priority Importance Priority Content-Type)]) Will try an update just now. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 824887 E ghenry at suretecsystems.com Open Source. Open

Just upgraded, and then had to downgrade straight away. Couldn't get our Squirrelmail page up. Logged in fine etc. but got: Query: LSUB "" "*" failed, refer to server logs etc. Nothing in logs that shows error with mail_debug=yes What should I be looking for? Gavin. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44

Hi all, We've downgraded to rc17 for the past week or so, as when we upgraded to rc19, this error did go, but came back again. ERROR: Could not complete request. Query: LSUB "" "*" Reason Given: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. Looks like it never helped us in rc19. Back on rc17 just now, which we still have to restart a few times a day,

Hi All, Just a quickie to say ew are running the latest version now. Our LSUB error was due to: open(/var/mail/public/.Projects/dovecot-acl) failed: Permission denied Thanks. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 824887 E ghenry at suretecsystems.com Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

Dear All, Is it possible to store shared folder lists in an LDAP Directory along with your virtual users? Will check the wiki too. Thanks, Gavin. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 824887 E ghenry at suretecsystems.com Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

Dear all, Getting lots of these errors in our maillog with the INDEX changed: dovecot: IMAP(ghenry): fchown() failed with file /home/ghenry/Maildir/index/.INBOX/dovecot.index.tmp: Operation not permitted For .log and .cache as well. We have: location = maildir:/home/%u/Maildir:CONTROL=%h/Maildir/control:INDEX=%h/Maildir/index I looked in safe-mkdir.c and saw: fchown() failed for (line 42)

Would anyone have any ideas with smbclient sits at FUTEX_WAIT in below message? Typing: strace smbclient -d 5 shows it sitting at: futex(0x2aaaabdf2dc0, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NU. SUSE 9.3 x86_64, Samba RPMS from main Samba site rpm -q samba-client samba-client-3.0.23a-0.1.34 -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 824887 E

Dear List, We've been following: http://wiki.dovecot.org/SharedFolders But all we can do is subscribe. Our users can't create folders, move e-mails into the top level folder etc. Am I not grasping the shared folders idea correctly? Thanks. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E ghenry at

Dear all, Does anyone else get these errors: /usr/bin/xsltproc --xinclude -o Samba-Developers-Guide-attributions.xml xslt/gen erate-attributions.xsl Samba-Developers-Guide/index.xml warning: failed to load external entity "Samba-Developers-Guide-attributions.xml " mkdir -p tmp /usr/bin/xsltproc --stringparam latex.imagebasedir "Samba-Developers-Guide/" --s tringparam

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

Dear all, We would like to setup, if possible, for example: We have 4 example groups, we various users in those groups: Directors director1,director2 Support manager1,support1,support2,support3 Enquiries manager2,enquiry1,enquiry2,enquiry3 Accounts manager3, accounts1,account2 Shared Mailboxes: Support: Support, user1, user2, user3 Accounts: Directors, Support So basically, we want 2

Might as well update the wiki ;-) http://wiki.dovecot.org/PrebuiltBinaries -- 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 Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

Dear all, Is there a devel type list, as I can't see one in the mailing list section? I am trying to gather the CVS checkout info for the Samba docs to update the Samba-Guide/Happy.html section and also discuss the doc build-tree etc. Thanks. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E ghenry@suretecsystems.com

Dear Team, The OpenLDAP stuff on this page: http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/happy.html is not the preferred backend, i.e. ldbm, it really, really needs to be bdb. See: http://www.openldap.org/faq/index.cgi?_highlightWords=bdb%20ldbm&file=1085 "ldbm uses a neutral storage interface which in principle could wrap dbm, ndbm, gdbm or sleepycat as underlying storage;