similar to: Outlook 2013/2010 nightmare #3

Yes Eric, Outlook also has a declaration that as of either version 2010 or 2013, they no longer download IMAP headers, they download the whole message - thank God for faster Internet connections these days - could you imagine that in the older dialup days? Still it is a waste of bandwidth and disk space to do this. I am so tired of how they claim to use the RFC and indicate they are

Hi All, This is my first post so forgive me if this hits the wrong list. I have been using dovecot for years happily with SendMail on mainly CentOS servers, and my customers are starting to more and more use Thunderbird, so my perfect model is: Linux --> Dovecot --> SendMail --> Thunderbird (or mobile phone e-mail app). I do have some customers using Outlook or Windows Live Mail,

Hi All and my sincere thanks to Jakob and Joseph for your responses. I got around the nightmare for this site but it is far from satisfactory and given both Thunderbird, Roundcube and the Android e-mail client work perfectly as expected, this following links comments enforce what I experienced over the weekend: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.dovecot/79231 I have not struck this

"David.M.Clark" <david at davrom.com> writes: > So the bottom line for this particular site is: > > Set the "Root Folder" for IMAP in outlook to "mail". This is messy from > my beloved Linux command line perspective in that you end up with > ${HOME}/login_name/mail/mail. But it does work and stops the Outlook > crashes. If "root

"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

Quoting David.M.Clark <david at davrom.com>: > Outlook also has a declaration that as of either version 2010 or > 2013, they no longer download IMAP headers, they download the whole > message - thank God for faster Internet connections these days - > could you imagine that in the older dialup days? Still it is a waste > of bandwidth and disk space to do this. Except

Hi Mike, I haven't seen your messages come through the feed so something is not working for your e-mail address there? No I am not using Sieve - the server has a third party handling spam etc so the Linux box is very basic SendMail, Dovecot and RoundCube setup (along with my own procmail based web interface for e-mail forwarding and away message responses). I struggle on. On 09/10/17

Hi All, Thanks to MJ for the suggestion as my only hope, and I have tested this with Outlook 2016 and Thunderbird today - seamless creation of folders. Now the mammoth task of converting customers with masses of mbox folders to MailDir format using the on-line perl script: mb2md-3.20.pl Works nicely and will be what gets us out of trouble. My only sadness is that Outlook then has to be

Hi All, please be kind, this is my first e-mail to the list :-) I actively support CentOS based e-mail servers running Dovecot, Sendmail, Spammassassin and 3 x SOGo based setups. Dovecot is my goto IMAP server and have used it and modifications to it to net excellent results for years. Then we have people who insist on only using Outlook (and in some instances the MS Live Messenger thingy).

Thanks for the reply MJ. Good to hear it works in MailDir format - might need to look at this. To date I have only had this issue with Outlook and for me personally on Fedora with Thunderbird, I tend to keep a heap of e-mail folders without sub-foldering and have my own little Linux 'utopia' of annually archiving folders etc using the Linux scripting environment, so I never have

Hi All, After over a week of stuffing around in /etc/dovecot/conf.d files and lots of trial and error, I now have a controlled setup to migrate one user at a time to Maildir without affecting the other mbox based users. For the sake of not posting an essay, if you go to this web page: http://dmc1961.id.au/howto_17101101.php you will see what I have done (moderators please let me know if this

Wow excellent feedback Joseph, Philon and Aki, You have all pointed me in the right direction. Tonight I have tested Dovecot with just the minor configs I do for Dovecot setup and I have commented out the mbox/Maildir lines in 10-mail.conf from my testing: #mail_location = #mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u #mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir I had run up some test files

Thanks for the reply and suggestion Robert. I have now set mail_max_userip_connections to 400 in 20-imap.conf to see if it makes any difference. Late yesterday the customer tested from his office, an older IOS 9 tablet and he had IMAP working in a matter of minutes, so is certainly an newer software version by Apple issue. On 30/11/17 03:03, Robert Giles wrote: > David, > > I'd

Hi David, I somehow remember that there is a way to get the mail_location from per-user-settings. I had this once when migrating from maildir to mdbox. You might want to use Google and the mailing list archives for the details but in summary it went like this: - set Dovecot to grab the mail_location from user-settings (I think we used MySQL db field - or check docs for auto:) - have login

Hi Josef, Just went through this one recently using CentOS with SendMail, Procmail and IMAP conversion from mbox to Maildir - I needed to make sure I could run both formats while I migrated users one-by-one. Not sure if what I did helps, but I created a 'how-to' page on it on my website rather than post an essay on the e-mail forum: http://dmc1961.id.au/howto_17101101.php In essence

"David.M.Clark" <david at davrom.com> writes: > Would be great to run both mbox and MailDir at the same time so we can > do the slow user-by-user process rather than having them all down at > some point completely ... - might look at running Dovecot on a different I believe you can do this by using a userdb that can accommodate extra fields. In particular, supplying a

You can give mail location and home directory from userdb or passdb. For userdb, return mail=something:~/something and for home use home=/path/to/home For passdb, you can return userdb_mail and userdb_home Aki > On October 8, 2017 at 1:14 PM Philon <bytesplit at gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi David, > > I somehow remember that there is a way to get the mail_location from

Hi, What we do, on the dovecot side, is: mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs:DIRNAME=mAildir See: https://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Maildir This has been working out very nicely for many years. I'm not sure though that there is a way to 'move' to that config without having to basically migrate all your mailboxes. MJ On 10/06/2017 04:08 AM, David.M.Clark wrote: >

I frequently see this from my iPhone/iPad IMAP users: Oct 24 21:30:55 server dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<user>, ... [... repeated 10 times ...] Oct 24 21:32:54 server dovecot: imap-login: Maximum number of connections from user+IP exceeded (mail_max_userip_connections=12): user=<user> Oct 24 21:32:54 server dovecot: imap(user): Logged out ... [... repeated 11 times

Hey, I need help! (I'm kinda new to this.), This past weekend I switched over our server at work from a MS NT 4.0 server to a Red Hat Linux version 9 server. I had to set up several network shares via Samba. For testing purposes I set up a former employee's account on the new server. This account would enable me to communicate with the old server and the new to copy over files. All the