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Hi All, my name is Giovanni and I am new to dovecot. I have installed version 2.0 the past week and I find it very powerful. I have started to play with the virtual mailbox plugin. I was unable to do a virtual mailbox filtering out the contents of other mailbox, for instance I have a virtual/spam mailbox which filter out all the spam thanks to spamassassin. This mailbox is virtual, its

Hi, I originally picked mdbox because I had the impression from reading about it on the mailing list that it was more performant and that it would conserve disc space. But lately i found mailboxes have nearly double the storage as reported. I mean, IMAP QUOTA reports around 900MB for one account that has over 2GB when I inspect the mail location of the user using the linux command `du`

Hello. I'm install latest dovecot 1.2 from hg repo. I have many messages in maildir+ format. I migrate some folders to dbxo format using instructions from http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox. But in two folders i'm delete index.cache and index.log files, this is my mistake. Is that possible to recover this files (regenerate) or use my messages from maildir with dbox? Thank You for

Hello, Thank you, yes I have, it's not answering my questions. Thanks. Dave. On 5/28/19, Ralph Seichter via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote: > * David Mehler: > >> Are there any performance or stability advantages Sdbox over Maildir? > > Have you read the documentation at all? > > -Ralph >

I was thinking about documentation for alternate storage. We have a few mentions at: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Altmove But I was thinking it would be helpful if there could be a page about alternate storage. I could write the page, but I currently have so many unknowns that I think it would be

The Dovecot wiki [1] doesn't list either Exim, Postfix or anything else as supporting the dbox. I did some searching in the Exim archives and have found only one message mentioning dbox, sdbox or mdbox. [2] I think an RFC would go a long way towards getting the format supported. Has Timo, or anyone else, considered submitting an RFC to the IETF? My question was how are we going to use it

Hi, currently most people store their messages in some sort of folder hierarchy, so that they can find them later easily. Here, for example, mails that are connected to a project are being stored in /CompanyName/ProjectNumber folders. Now I was wondering if there is any reason against using tags instead of a folder hierarchy, because tags are better when it comes to mails that belong to

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

Yesterday I had to recover an e-mail which a user had deleted. If I understand this correctly the message was expunged but not purged (doveadm purge had not been run). This e-mail was clearly still in the mdbox stored with zlib compression as I could tell using the doveadm dump command (doveadm dump -t dbox filename). I could however not reveal the e-mail with the normal doveadm fetch -u

Hi Looking for some insight into mdbox index file management and recovery from corruptions. I have a two node cluster on NFS with proxy director in front for user stickness. One node (a nominated master) bidirectionally replicates to a 3rd node on a DR site. We periodically get index file corruptions resulting in rebuilds. However the user experience is poor as messages read/deleted from

I did some searching in the mail archives and didn't see any discussion of integration with AWS, so I wanted to through out my thoughts/plans and see if it has been done before. I am setting up my own personal website on EC2 along with an email server, and I really don't like the idea of using the disk drive as permanent mail storage. EBS is too small instance storage is ephermeral.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello everybody, I have one thousand virtual users with mdbox mailbox format and 10 GByte quota. I have noticed some performance problem related to I/O (the mailbox disk is a 6TB raid1+0 on ISCSI), so I want to put the index files on a different disk. My actual mail_location is: mail_location = mdbox:/var/vmail/%-1.1u/%u/mdbox and I want to switch

On 29.5.2019 8.17, @lbutlr via dovecot wrote: > Are you sure you read > it??https://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox?seems pretty clear. > > --? > This is my signature. There are many like it, but this one is mine. David, in particular, is there some question you feel that the wiki fails to answer? Aki

What are the pros and cons of both? Especially in regards to performance, stability, management & maintenance? I really appreciate feedback. We're on a time-crunch to migrate from a debian 5 box w/ dovecot 1.1 to a debian 6 box w/ dovecot 2.0.9 (built from source). Thanks, - Doug Mortensen Network Consultant Impala Networks Inc CCNA, MCSA, Security+, A+ Linux+, Network+, Server+ .

I've had clients 'request' nested folders, and it would seem that maildir is designed with that ability while with mbox it is difficult and.or impossible to implement (nested can be achieved; but not nested AND populated in each nest level). My question is, is one format 'better' than the other? It would take a fair bit of time to convert my system to maildir and I would want

I am currently running v1.1.20 and was wondering if there is any compelling reason to upgrade to v1.2 or v2.0? For example is there any security updates in v1.2 or v2.0 that aren't included in v1.1.20? The other major thing I would be interested in knowing is there any speed enhancements in the newer versions? I am using basic PAM Auth and Maildir mailboxes on a Linux box. Let me know

> On 10/11/2020 20:07 Daniel Sch?tze <dms at cwa.uk.com> wrote: > > > Dear Aki > Thank you. Unfortunately I'm struggling to get the right syntax for this as it looks like someone else was here too > https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2018-July/112441.html > The location in my dovecot.conf is > >

Hi Samba team, I feel user will feel more confortable when they can mount folder (via mount.cifs or mount.smbfs) under particular shared folder. Example: I have a share folder call department, all department's folder arrange inside so I have a share folder call \\server\department if I have a linux client under purchasing, I 2 command to get the correct place, and I feel it is giving more

Hello everybody, We are updating our old dovecot 1.1 servers to 2.0. We have a farm os servers, with users in nfs filesystems and indexes in local fs. Mail is stored in maildir format. We don't warrant that a user is always directed to the same server, although our load balancer sends all request from one IP to the same server (during a session time with a inactivity timeout). This is

Hi again, I'm still trying to find out if anyone knows the correct way to either switch the existing Maildir multiple file format to the single file format I believe known as MBox. Failing that, though it'll mean a LOT of work for me to manually convert all of the existing Maildirs, how do I get dovecot to work in future in MBox single file format. I tried