similar to: dovecot.index.log files: what are they?

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 09:26:31PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 10.12.2014 um 21:19 schrieb Thomas Klausner: > >I have lots of these files: > > > >/home/wiz/Mail/my-folder-name/cur/.imap/1238738125.13533_23713.danbala:2,S/dovecot.index.log > > > >What are they for? > >Why are they here? > >Can I remove them? > > RTFM:

Am 10.12.2014 um 21:19 schrieb Thomas Klausner: > I have lots of these files: > > /home/wiz/Mail/my-folder-name/cur/.imap/1238738125.13533_23713.danbala:2,S/dovecot.index.log > > What are they for? > Why are they here? > Can I remove them? RTFM: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/IndexFiles https://www.google.at/search?q=dovecot.index.log -------------- next part -------------- A

micah <micah at riseup.net> wrote: > Now, about 50 users have a problem where their indexes are > corrupted. Dovecot tries to fix them, but for some reason it is > failing. The users are seeing their mails duplicated and they cannot > delete mails. I can see in the logs dovecot detecting this and trying to > rebuild operations during delivery and imap login, but its repeating

On Thu, 7 May 2020, Asai wrote: > I have several users who have inboxes that are over 20 GB. > > As email admins, how do you handle inboxes that are so large? Do you use > mailbox types that have better performance like dbox? We're using maildir. > > What's a reasonable inbox size? Is 20+ GB reasonable and nothing to worry > about? It depends on what you consider

Hi! I have lots of these files: /home/wiz/Mail/my-folder-name/cur/.imap/1238738125.13533_23713.danbala:2,S/dovecot.index.log What are they for? Why are they here? Can I remove them? Thomas

"David.M.Clark" <david at davrom.com> writes: > I do have some customers using Outlook or Windows Live Mail, and these > are for the most part working fine with IMAP - I don't do POP. > ... > The issue starts when you add an IMAP user to the Outlook client and > upon opening it, initially, it tries to find a "Sent" Items folder under > IMAP to send

On Fri, 8 May 2020, asai at globalchangemusic.org wrote: > >> It depends on what you consider reasonable. >> >> The processing time of file operation that iterates through a mailbox >> will generally go up proportinately with size. If you do a text search >> without some indexing system like Solr, it will take a very long time. >> >> If the mailbox

Hey Joseph Thanks. Strace seems like a very useful tool Only problem is that I dont think it is maintained on ubuntu. Tried to run:- apt-get install strace but could not download it. Might need to download and build it. Do you know any other way of getting it? Thanks Kevin A. On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com> wrote: > Kevin writes: > >

Dear Joseph, Just to clarify, the pid you are referring to is of dovecot? Correct? Thanks Kevin On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com> wrote: > Kevin writes: > > Appreciate if you could help with this. I have been trying to address this >> "slow search" issue for a while with very limited success(I was trying to >> implement

Thanks Joseph, Aki, but something missing from upgrade document, where does the dh param file go? I located ssl-parameters.dat so I will put it there. Quoting Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>: > On Fri, 22 Jun 2018, Joseph Tam wrote: > >> However, recent advances make this condition obsolete [*] and not >> really safer, so a much faster way to generate a DH key is

Kevin writes: > Appreciate if you could help with this. I have been trying to address this > "slow search" issue for a while with very limited success(I was trying to > implement FTS also), so I will appreciate if you could support. When I'm stumped, one of the diagnostic tools I use is process tracing. Connect via IMAP, in another window/session process trace the IMAP

On 24.01.2017 00:06, rej ex wrote: > Because we are building some monitoring application, we will need to > record all failed and successful login attempts. We need to record > remote IP, entered password in plain text, and if possible whether auth > request is for SMTP or IMAP session. SMTP? Wouldn't that be handled by your MTA, not Dovecot? AKi Tuomi wrote: > Since

Nice to get to hear this. However, the password is not stored in clear text here. How then does it work? On Fri, Dec 21, 2018, 00:58 Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com wrote: > On Thu, 20 Dec 2018, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > > At the expense of sounding stupid, could you please expound on the > > sequence? :) > > In a nutshell, during protocol handshake, the server

<!doctype html> <html> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> </head> <body> <div> <br> </div> <blockquote type="cite"> <div> On 07/08/2019 00:37 Joseph Tam via dovecot < <a href="mailto:dovecot@dovecot.org">dovecot@dovecot.org</a>> wrote: </div>

aside from cat? On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 03:07:58PM -0800, Joseph Tam wrote: > On Thu, 29 Nov 2018, Marc Roos wrote: > > >When concatenating mbox files like described here > >https://xaizek.github.io/2013-03-30/merge-mbox-mailboxes/. You will end > >up with an 'unsorted' mbox file. Is this going to be a problem > >esspecially when they are large >2GB's

Quoting Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>: > Another privacy plugin that assumes the server operator is unmotivated or > respects your privacy anyways, and won't just skim your password right off > the top to look at your mail. A vault with steel walls and a dirt floor. *SIGH* As usual, you're right on the money, Joseph. I used to let things like this

On Thu, 9 Aug 2018, neutron wrote: > The plugin adds individually encrypted mail storage to the Dovecot IMAP > server. It encrypts all (incoming and outgoing) mail on the mail server > with a key, which can only be accessed with the users password. So the > server operator is not able to see any mail content, if it's saved on > the hard disk. Another privacy plugin that

On Sat, 11 Aug 2018, Aki Tuomi wrote: > While this is true, it can be useful to encrypt messages in-rest at 3rd > party storage. Sure, in this case, mail operator != storage operator. It's not apparent those who clamour for it know the difference. > For end user, only PGP or similar provides sufficient security against admin. For content. Metadata can also reveal a lot. If the

On Thu, 20 Dec 2018, Joseph Tam wrote: >> At the expense of sounding stupid, could you please expound on the >> sequence? :) If you want the nitty details (Starting at bottom of page 18) https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2831 Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>

> On December 5, 2016 at 9:55 PM Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Timo announced: > > > https://dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2.27.tar.gz > > https://dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2.27.tar.gz.sig > > > > Note that the download URLs are now https with a certificate from Let's Encrypt. > > wget complained