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Hello, i have to backup (tape library) a mailsystem with about 300.000 Mailboxes on 2 backends. Summary of all mailboxes are 2 TByte. The mailstore is mdbox. Is it save to do a simple filesystem backup (full and incremental) with backupsoftware? What is the prefered strategy to do a backup for desaster recovery (mailsystem crash) and restoring single usermailboxes? Regards, Claus

my mailsystem is using postfix and virtual mailbox which stored in mysql db. SMTP AUTH is using PAM, pam-mysql to authenticate against a mysql db. I installed dovecot 0.99-14. In the dovecot example config file it mentioned that auth_passdb can check against thru PAM but auth_userdb didn't Does it mean that auth_userdb should use other means e.g. /etc/passwd, shadow, vpopmail, etc and in my

Hi, we start to run out of diskspace soon as our users start to keep mails for longer time periods. That's fine, but space consuming. The maildirs are about 1 TB in total, and not long ago we enabled zlib which is very nice. Now I have some thoughts about the next steps: a) Migrating the whole system to a new server with more storage? b) Install a virtual server for the mailsystem and an

The mdbox-format with the altstorage-feature is quite nice and important. But we're having much more then >> 30 TB of maildata and doing an fsck on huge partitions takes too much (down-) time for our mailsystem. It would be much easier, if Dovecot would be able to use at least THREE storage-paths for his m-Files (and not just TWO like now). Having an altstorage1 and altstorage2, we

Hi, I have mailsystem with virtual users only (/home/vmail/domain/user). I need to integrate RT3.x (a ticketing system). I have installed the client but I need to send mail to a pipe. Rt wants me to insert: |/usr/bin/rt-mailgate --queue bla --action bla --url http://bla.bal/ In /etc/postfix/aliases. That does not work for me. What is the right way to achieve that mail to rt at mydomain is

Hi, i have a strange problem since pxelinux 3.62 with the F10 help key. I configured this: DISPLAY pxelinux.cfg/schlunix_new.txt F1 pxelinux.cfg/helps/schlunix F2 pxelinux.cfg/helps/schlunix64 F3 pxelinux.cfg/helps/rescue F4 pxelinux.cfg/helps/rescue64 F5 pxelinux.cfg/helps/stress F6 pxelinux.cfg/helps/stress64 F7 pxelinux.cfg/helps/dosimages F8 pxelinux.cfg/helps/mailsystem F9

Hi Can anyone point me to a howto to arrange for multiple domains to deliver to one inbox with Dovecot? For example, user1 at example.com and user1 at example.net should both be delivered to /var/spool/mail/virtual/example.net/user1 Currently, I have the dovecot LDA set as: dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=mailsystem argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver

Hi, I'm sorry to bug you with an not directly dovecot related question, but this is for me right now the place with the best mailsystem admins I know. I'm asked if there is a way to save a copy of all mail we send trough our sendmail server (Red Hat EL 5.x) in and out as an .eml file for further processing by a DMS system. The files should be saved on some network share. Any suggestion

Dear all, We are getting closer to the migration of our mailsystem. Now I have a special question. We are successfully using passdb { driver = pam } and that is good. Now, how would I tell dovecot to proxy certain users (the ones not yet migrated) to the old server? My attempts to configure an additional userdb failed since this seems to override the passdb setting. Grateful for any

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi :) Is there any plan to include delivery agent in 1.x? I would be very happy, if there would be lmtp delivery agent included with dovecot 1.x... This would make creating large mailsystem cluster creation very simple + indexes would be always up2date. Brane -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----

Hi, I have a mailsystem where i have some local users with shell access and full home dirs which receive mail and also several SQL virtual users only for mail. With the virtual users, everything works fine. Mail is delivered via LMTP and also sieve works :) The SQL Lookup knows what to do with username at domain.com The problem is the system user. If exim delivers the mail to the lmtp

Hi @all, First: I'm sorry when my english isn't understandable, please just ask if I messed things up. I switched from Cyrus to Dovecot (Cyrus was on Debian Sarge, Dovecot is now on a Etch) and I'm quite happy with it. There is just one thing that I'm missing in Dovecot. in Cyrus when users reached 90% of their Quota, a message popped up in their Mailclients, telling them to

As I hijacked a thread... I thought I'd start this new one. Yes, shame on me. Karanbir Singh wrote: > John Hinton wrote: >> As a side, I could see blossoming a Wiki area specific to email which might >> eventually fill out to an extremely robust set of how to's for installations >> of what amounts to being some of the very hardest things that I've >>

As I hijacked a thread... I thought I'd start this new one. Yes, shame on me. Karanbir Singh wrote: > John Hinton wrote: >> As a side, I could see blossoming a Wiki area specific to email which might >> eventually fill out to an extremely robust set of how to's for installations >> of what amounts to being some of the very hardest things that I've >>

Hello all, I hope that it now works and there is no longer problems with my mailsystem. It could be that it already worked but it doesn''t look like because the mail don''t came back from the list. I am trying to setup stubdomains for my running domains on Xen 4.2. I read this wiki articles: http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/StubDom

Hi, I finally got a grip on our mail guys to try out Dovecot after they started migrating a ~15k user mailsystem to Maildir+NFS (Netapp)+Courier and the performance was not as good as expected. So far the results are impressive, although there are of course a few small issues to be solved. One is the current Quota handling, which they use with Courier IMAP and (still) think it needs to be

Hi I've upgraded to 2.1.7 and finally decided to turn off imaps and pop3s because these days everyone uses tls over 143 anyway. But it's on and I can't figure out why. I only have non-ssl versions specified: protocols = imap pop3 I've stopped and started and the ports are still open and netstat says dovecot is listening on them.. mail:~# netstat -tulnp | grep dove tcp 0

Hi All, We have upgraded the dovecot from 1.0 to 1.2.8. After upgradation we have noticed that dovecot deliver process is utilizing a lot of CPU. As a result the mailsystem will stop working. When we limit the no of procs in postfix for dovecot deliver the CPU usage will come down. But we are not facing this problem with the previous version. Below is the log files for dovecot when the error

First, maintainer''s addresses (Ryan Wilson <hap9@epoch.ncsc.mil>, Chris Bookholt <hap10@epoch.ncsc.mil>) are wrong (users unknown to remote mailsystem), so posting to you: PCI bus format strings are wrong. "%04x:%02x:%02x.%d" should be used instead of "%04x:%02x:%02x.%1x" (in many places of linux+v3.2.1/drivers/xen/xen-pciback/pci_stub.c) --

(Dovecot 1.0.rc15) Hello I'm tring to configure postfix+dovecot on debian etch. In dovecot I use passdb pam and userdb passwd-file. I can connect pop3 clients and reveice mails and connect smtp clients and send mails, but it is delivered to /var/mail/%u instead the configured mailboxes in /var/local/dovecot/%u. I`ve configured postfix as say http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Postfix.