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I'm still pretty new to running a mail server, but one thing I've come to appreciate over the years is a good backup strategy. Since I have always run my own servers for practice and for personal use I don't have access to Enterprise backup solutions. Because of that I usually just fall back to scripts and tarballs and offload the content on a regular basis. Right now I'm

Hi, I've been using the Dovecot EE packages for Ubuntu for some time now and just recently started getting 404 errors. Have those packages been discontinued or is this just a temporary issue? Thanks.

Dear all, I install postfix ,postfix-mysql,dovecot-core,dovecot-mysql,dovecot-pop3,dovecot-imapd and postfixadmin form debian repo. Also i configured postfixadmin. It work fine with mbox storage, But i need to change it to my path/domain/users i saw devecot have mail_location directive. i changed it to : mail_location = maildir:/var/pool/%d/%u My questions are: 1. how can i assign mail_location

Forgive what may be a newby question, but I'm trying to get a new setup working, and there are many different things confusing me. I'm trying for a gnus + dovecot + mbsync arrangement, with mbsync writing to maildirs, and gnus reading from those dirs with a dovecot invocation. Fairly standard, I think. I have multiple email accounts I'm trying to sync, all of them gmail. My problem

Is there an automatic solution to this? Oct 27 08:00:48 192.168.50.5 dovecot: POP3(evelina2): mail_location: mbox: mkdir(/home/popuser_evelina2/mail) failed: Permission denied Oct 27 08:00:48 192.168.50.5 dovecot: Fatal: POP3(evelina2): Namespace initialization failed Oct 27 08:00:51 192.168.50.5 dovecot: POP3(evelina2): mail_location: mbox: mkdir(/home/popuser_evelina2/mail) failed: Permission

I'm implementing sdbox. In conf.d/10-mail.conf, with "maildir:" mail_location = maildir:/my_mailbox_path/%d/%n mail gets stored in /my_mailbox_path/%d/%n/new/ With "sdbox:" mail_location = sdbox:/my_mailbox_path/%d/%n mail gets stored in /my_mailbox_path/%d/%n/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails. How do I get rid of the '/mailboxes/' and '/dbox-Mails/' path

hi, I had a long (upgraded today from 2.0.17 to 2.1.9) time mail_location and mail_home at the same path, which I recognize know, that it wasn't a good idea, idea. On my testsystem I've set: mail_home = /imap/spool/%d/%1u/%u mail_location = maildir:~/:INDEX=~/ otherwise I don't have access to the mails anymore. Is that ok? cu denny

Hi all. Now hopefully as a new thread because I still have this question. Apologies to Geert and Timo for my misbehaviour...(repling to the list and changing the subject). I hace Dovecot rc12 working on Mandriva 2007.0 now for system accounts and virtual accounts both imap and imaps can be used. Th problem now is that I cannot use both types of user at the same time. The 'mail_location =

Hello, Where I work we have have an interesting setup, we have 2 machines with mail accounts on them and both have dovecot. We would really like to centralize all the mail accounts on one machine, but unfortunately the administration has not approved it. However, if we could create the "illusion" that they are on the same machine that would be acceptable. If we have a 3rd machine, lets

current version : 1.0.rc15 Hi, I would just like to know if it's possible to have different mail locations for different UNIX users, using pam authentication and the passwd userdb. We also have some virtual users using an SQL db. The current config is : auth default: username_translation: %@ verbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: passwd passdb:

In parallel to /etc/passwd I do have my system users in LDAP. I want to store their messages in /srv/mail/state-of-mind/<username>. Dovecot has been configured to retrieve the extra field mail to override the mail_location setting. I can see in the log it retrieves the correct information as long as I run Dovecot deliver as Postfix service 'dovecot' as shown in section "Virtual

I am running version 1.1.1 with mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir. This is working great as all our users have UNIX accounts with nologin shells. New domains (and their users) are about to come online and we would like to migrate to a setup with virtual mailboxes/users. From the wiki and comments within dovecot.conf, I see it is possible to do this piecemeal so both local and virtual users

Hi, I'm fairly new to Dovecot, migrating from a POP-only system with /var/mail only mailboxes. I'm currently on version 1.0.10 on Solaris 10, but I don't think that's relevant to the question. I'm a little overwhelmed by the number of configuration options at the moment. I took the "standard" mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u setting in

I have: mail_location = maildir:/var/dovecot-mail/%d/%n/Maildir but on my /var/dovecot-mail have following directory created: -domain -domain. -domain.es (only this is correct) -DOMAIN.ES Why is this happening?

Hello! I'm try to build additional 2 private namespaces namespace private { prefix = 1/ #location = ~/mail/1 list = yes subscriptions = yes } namespace private { prefix = 2/ #location = ~/mail/2 list = yes subscriptions = yes } First private namespace contains inbox and mail_location not defined (selects in sql query in

hi.... i have virtual users stored in ldap server and i must to do some modifications that requiere to chage mail_location value... the solution comes to use the "uid" value stored in ldap server for users on mail_location parameter... i can see in http://wiki.dovecot.org/Variables that i can't do them (i uses sasl authentication) so.. ?exist any way to get a value from ldap server

Hello, I'm currently running 1.1.20 and I'm planning to upgrade to 1.2.10 I've read carefully the wiki page "Upgrading Dovecot v1.1 to v1.2" and a few messages concerning mail_location parameter but I still don't know what to change in my configuration in order to keep it working after the upgrade. I'm using mbox format and mbox_snarf plugin. dovecot -n :

Thomas Leuxner wrote: > Am 14.05.2010 um 20:03 schrieb Phil Howard: > > >> I've been thinking that as soon as I get this working, I will plan a transition over to a newer server with Slackware instead of Ubuntu. Slackware is easier about letting you run packages you build from source. >> > > Probably OT, but did you consider using Stephan Bosch's builds

Hello, I have a lot of domains in a mail server, so I make a balanced allocation of mailboxes in the storage disks. That improves performance of access to records. Therefore, I want to overwrite 'mail_location' directive for each user. But I also want to use the modifier 'H' to spray the mailboxes of the same partition in a hash. Then, each user has your own

Hi, I'm switching from UW-imap to dovecot 2.0.1 and was wondering about the mail_location config: mail_location = mbox:~/.:INBOX=/var/mail/%u Notice '.' in '~/.' above. This seems to resolve the ~/mail problem when switching from UW-imap (ie, no 'mail' prefix). doc/wiki/Migration.UW.txt doesn't mention using '~/.', so I was wondering whether there are