similar to: Lock down Shared Mail Accounts?

Hey Timo, I have a question regarding how dovecot might behave if a mail client (like, for example, Thunderbird) decided to store some of its config files on the IMAP server itself. Would there be a decent way of doing this with dovecot that wouldn't cause problems for other clients that didn't know about these files? Maybe there's a way to define a special folder that dovecot knows

Hello, I'm in the process of finalizing the spec for my new dovecot VM, and this is the last question I need to address... I've read until I'm just about decided on XFS, but I have no experience with it (been using reiserfs on my old box (@ 8 yrs old now), and never had a problem (knock on wood), but considering its current situation (little to no development support for reasons

Hello, I'm using dovecot v1.0rc23 for about 500 users since february with no particular problems. I'm using Maildir format and ldap authentication. A recently added user can't check his mails any more. In the logs I get May 23 14:35:58 mailsrv deliver(XXXX): [ID 702911 mail.error] Timeout while waiting for shared lock for index file /var/mail/XXXX/Maildir/dovecot.index The user

We are intending to have some project mail accounts which many people (up to 10) will share. Will this work? Our configuration uses imap only, with maildir format mail storage. Thanks Rory -- Rory Campbell-Lange <rory at campbell-lange.net> <www.campbell-lange.net>

I have a huge block of email that was misdelivered into the wrong folder. Moving it where it should be is not just all from one folder to being all of another folder. Basically, the index files need to be rebuilt. Looking in the wiki I cannot find how to do this. It all seems to be about installation, and no administrative tools. Or would it be just as simple as delete certain index files and

Hi, After reading the following paragraph from the dovecot doc, I've been wondering how it would affect rsync (when combined with gzip): "Expunging a message only decreases the message's refcount. The space is later freed in "purge" step. This is typically done in a nightly cronjob when there's less disk I/O activity. The purging first finds all files that have

I am trying to do authentication with /etc/passwd and something is not working right for me. Pls help! When i try to authenticate via pop3, I get: -ERR Authentication failed. In the logs, I get: May 21 11:14:07 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=pop3 secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 lport=110 rport=32774 resp=AGp1bmUAU0lORzNlcnQ= May 21 11:14:07 Info: auth(default):

I thought I had Dovecot configured to use Maildir instead of mbox, but apparently it is still using mbox. Excerpt from dovecot.conf: mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir Excerpt from sendmail.mc: MAILER(dovecot)dnl dovecot.m4: ######################################## ### DOVECOT Mailer Specification ### ######################################## Mdovecot,

On 6/9/2015 8:36 AM, Charles Marcus <CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com> wrote: > On 6/8/2015 5:11 PM, Pali Roh?r <pali.rohar at gmail.com> wrote: >> Still I want read/write access to storage and want to use mbox as >> storage (also for easier backup and copy)... >> >> And my question was how to properly read and write from/to mbox files >> which are used

Hi, i have a mail server with many users and i am using dovecot as pop3 server. I was wondering if there is a way to detect the last date each user logged in to the server for retrieving his mail. I need to delete the users that has not logged in to their accounts the last 6 monthes. Many thanks for any help. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam?

Ok, hopefully there is a solution to this. I've been experimenting with multiple rsyncs in preparation for pulling the trigger on the mail server switch, but have a problem that I really want to fox before doing so. Apparently something causes Thunderbirds local message cache to get out of sync with dovecot after a sync. Here is the series of commands I'm running: 1. stop postfix,

i have install 2.1.1 and configured in dovecot log this error is coming every 20 seconds: dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs): rip=**********, lip=**********, TLS handshaking: SSL_accept() syscall failed: Connection reset by peer and this error every 2 seconds: dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs): rip=**********, lip=********** what can

Hi, I'm a busy sysadmin locking and unlocking user accounts. I'd like to be able to do it from my linux -kerberos enabled samba workstation. I can easily use net commands to see if a user's account is locked in the ADS. How do I actually lock it from within samba. I've written a user management system at the school that does lots of things, I'd like it to be able to do

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Hello, Is it possible to have this done not only for spam and trash folder but lets say like the user inbox and any user created mail folders too? My ultimate goal is to have a way to automate the email deletion process of emails stored in the user inbox or mail folders when it reaches a specified date. My boss wants to force users to keep emails only a month old anything beyond that will be

Hi again, I am using dovecot 2.3.16, along with postfix and a PostgreSQL database for managing virtual accounts. After an initial topic from me about encrypting already existent mail, I could now use some pointers on how to set up the mail-crypt plugin for pure virtual accounts (i.e. that have no matching system users and/or home directories. I hope somebody can clarify a few things that are not

On 3/9/2016 9:02 PM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote: > On 08 Mar 2016, at 01:50, Pavel Stano <stanojr at websupport.sk> wrote: >> >> sis attachment deduplication is broken in 2.2.16 upwards. >> It is caused by this commit. >> https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/664bf3e236c214aee86294483c379e4fa66c2e63 >> >> in src/lib-fs/fs-sis.c function

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Op 16-7-2016 om 18:12 schreef Charles Marcus: > > On July 16, 2016 4:02:33 AM EDT, Spyros Tsiolis <stsiol at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >> Since I have quite some experiece with thunderbird, I know most of >> its shortcomings > Care to elaborate? Thunderbird is far from perfect, but is by far the best IMAP client available. > > Most times you can work around supposed