similar to: converting from mbox to maildir ?

Hello I'm going to change the raid array of my mailhub in fews days/weeks and I wonder if it would be a good idea to take the opportunity of this migration to also change the storage method from mailbox to maildir. I've never used maildir on my production server only on small satellites. So I really need advice of admins that use maildir format on prod servers. My server has approx

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'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 I use real unix users on the mailhub and I would like to automate home directories creation for new users. I found lda_mailbox_autocreate and lda_mailbox_autosubscribe statements in 15-lda.conf file ( dovecot 2.0.11 ) which seem to be the right things for me :-) I use Postfix 2.8.1 with Dovecot LDA mailbox_command = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda All Mailboxes are located in

Hello I plan to migrate my mailhub from 1 to 2 , is it a good idee to remove all indexes .imap directories from the new server before starting it in production state ? Thanks

Hello I've googled around to tune a bit my mailhub ( AMD64 FreeBSD 8.1, 12 Gb RAM, 2 Tb raid5 disks , ~4000 mailboxes unix users ) but I am a bit confused, All my clients use thunderbird as MUA ( IMAP, IMAPS ) to connect to the mailhub no direct access to the machine. Any of you guys has some pointer to give ? thanks a lot

Hello all Tomorrow is the day , I'm gonna migrate all our mailboxes and imap folders from our old mailhub to the new one. In the same time I will migrate from UW to Dovecot , I've read all the stuff about it on the Dovecot web site. I have one question , do I have to care about the .imap cache directory created by Dovecot in any way or will it be "all automatic" when starting

I am consistently getting the following error from puppetd when an exec resource is triggered by a refresh event: Apr 23 10:36:11 mailhub puppetd[37884]: Reopening log files Apr 23 10:36:11 mailhub puppetd[37884]: Starting Puppet client version 0.22.3 Apr 23 10:36:11 mailhub puppetd[37884]: Starting configuration run Apr 23 10:36:12 mailhub puppetd[37884]:

Hello We actually use MBOX format on our mailhub but this does not permit to create IMAP subfolders. Many users are asking me fot this feature and I agree with them of course. My problem is to choose the format that will permit imap subfolders creation. Maildir is not my favorite format and I wonder about MDBOX. Does it permit imap subfolders creation ? It is possible to convert from MBOX to

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 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

Hi, I'm setting up our new mail system using dovecot as mailbox server. As our goal is to have many many small redundant (virtual) servers as components, for example a mailhub (just relaying mail) and a frontend smtp server (just accepting or denying mail in the first place and then forwarding it to the mailhub), etc. I want to run Dovecot on a different server than the main MTAs. The mailbox

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 is there a way to forbid SOME ( not all ) users's login with dovecot 2 ? I need to move their IMAP folders to another place with more disk space but I don't want to stop dovecot IMAP service for the other users as the moving process will be a bit long ( 1 Tb to move ) thanks

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 IMAP users here have a *lot* of folders living in their mailhub home directory Converting the INBOX doesn't seems to be a problem I've found scripts that do the job :-) But How to convert IMAP folders from UW format ( one file / folder ) to dovecot format which seems much more sophisticated. Does anyone has written such ( nice) utility ? Thanks a lot Frank

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

I have tried to setup ssmtp to relay through gmail. root=my gmail address AuthUser=my gmail address AuthPass=my password FromLineOverride=YES mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587 UseSTARTTLS=YES TLS_CA_FILE=/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt I get this error: Authorization failed (534 5.7.14 https://support.google.com/mail/answer/78754 145sm16287775qhb.20 - gsmtp) I am not using two step verification at

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 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