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Hello for internal purpose I need to put some users's mailboxes in readonly mode during few days. We use MBOX format and UNIX user mode on a FreeBSD 9.1 box I tried to read-only mount the partition but dovecot does not work this way Any infos welcome

Hello This is a bit off Dovecot but ... I'm searching some software to mirror mailboxes and IMAP forlders from the mailhub to another (clone) computer. Actually I use rsync daily but I wonder if it exists some software that are real time mirroring capable ? I'm using Dovecot 1.2.14 and Postfix with MBOX format. Thanks

Hello I use LDA Dovecot 2 with SIEVE as Postfix delivery agent and I occasionally get such message in syslog. info.log:Apr 13 12:39:40 lda(xxxxxxxx): Info: msgid=<4DA484FF.5060903 at gmail.com>: save failed to INBOX: Timeout while waiting for lock See below the doveconf -n trace Thanks for any info > # 2.0.11: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf > # OS: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE amd64

hello I'm trying to setup a server with public mailboxes only but I cannot succeed. Anyone could help me a bit ? thank you here is the doveconf -n output # 2.1.6: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE-p3 amd64 auth_debug = yes debug_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/debug.log disable_plaintext_auth = no info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/info.log log_path =

Hello I solved my previous SSL problem by reinstalling dovecot2 ... :-) at FreeBSD 8.1 Now I'm using dovecot 2 , cool ... Actually my production mail server runs with MBOX format but reading the dovecot 2 wiki I read shared mailboxes are only working well with Maildir format. As I would like to setup some shared mailboxes, is it possible to have MBOX format for normal users ( UNIX NIS

Hello I noticed a problem after upgrading to 1.1.8 Users that access to their mailboxes using webmail squirrelmail and HTTPS using HTTP seems to work correctly but it not safe enough ... There is an error message saying the imap server send a BYE command ... I downgraded our Dovecot server to 1.1.7 then it works again ... Does somebody has the same problem ? -- Cordialement Frank Bonnet

Hello Is there a way to restrict access to Dovecot server during mailboxes convertion ? I need dovecot to be running to convert mailboxes from a format to another, but I would like to block all our LAN clients until the end of convertion. If there is no internal Dovecot mechanism I will use some firewall rule on the server. Thanks

Hello Actually we use MBOX format for all our IMAP access but users complain they cannot create subfolders in imap folders, of course they cannot because of MBOX format ... I need gurus advices on changing mailbox format Maildir of Dbox ? What would be the safest way to go ? Note : we extensively use Thunderbird here. Thanks

Hello I got this error message yesterday evening for a user I've checked LDA error log it happened 6 times in 3 days for 5 differents users, not much but I wonder what's going on as actually the server is moderately loaded ( Easter holidays ) we have currently 250/300 IMAP processes , in "normal" production time we have approx 1000 IMAP processes running. Apr 14 19:24:37

Hello I've installed managesieve on my mailhub FreeBSD from dovecot-managesieve ports to let roundcube users build email filters. The filter are well created in the right directory but the filter seems inefficient ( it does not filter ;-) ) see below the result of the dovecot -n command Thanks for any info > mail# dovecot -n > # 1.2.10: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf > # OS: FreeBSD

Hello Since I've installed Dovecot 2 I've observed that TB does not notice new mails arrival in IMAP folders. When I click on a folder new mails count is updated, with dovecot 1 it was automatic. I wonder if it is due to the new TB version (lastest stable) or Dovecot 2 (2.0.11). I use MBOX format. See below the doveconf -n trace Thanks for any idea/info > # 2.0.11:

Hello Every night a backup of all mailboxes is performed to a NFS mounted partition All our mailboxes are now in MDBOX format. I wonder how it would be possible to recover one email accidentally deleted by a user ? It was easy in MBOX format to extract and save it using mutt ( as root ) from the backuped mbox then re-copy it to the user's mbox. Of course I should access to the backup

Hello Everything is in the subject ... If not which MUA does it ? Infos welcome Thanks

Hello Since we upgrade all our users's PC with Thunderbird 3(.0.1) many of them have a problem with email that move back to unread status even after they have read them. The problem does not occured with Thunderbird 2 Is this problem Dovecot related ? Do you have the same trouble ? Thank you

Hello Does anyone succeded in joining a Samba PDC with a NetApp filer ? I tried many times but never succeded ... Any infos welcome. Thanks

Hello We are facing a boring trouble with multi OB boot machines that access to our samba server. All machines authenticate to samba PDC ( linux debian etch + windows ) It appears when machines windows's bootup the shared secret is changed by windows if we reboot the same machine under Linux it cannot authenticate anymore because Linux does NOT change the shared secret ... The machines

hello trying to install dovecot 2 on a fresh installed machine I get this error message : doveconf -n > dovecot-new.conf doveconf: Error: ssl enabled, but ssl_cert not set doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf: ssl enabled, but ssl_cert not set the ssl config file look like the following : Thanks for any info. ## ## SSL settings ## # SSL/TLS

Hello Is it possible to configure Dovecot (2) to "redirect" IMAP connexions to IMAPS ? I know it would be possible with ipfw on the server but I wonder if dovecot has such capability. thanks

Hello Anyons has tested this configuration with success ? I'll test it in few days and I am wondering if I am alone :-) Thanks

Hello Anyone has migrated Dovecot IMAP only mailboxes server to GMAIL ? We use MBOX format. Any feedback welcome ... Thanks you