similar to: How to detect out-of-sync condition

Thanks. I use dovecot's lda and dovecot's sieve filter. So it looks like I need to compare the index/mailbox mtimes as you suggest. What am I looking for? I see that the indexes are updated when I run the resync. I checked my mailbox (that was not resynced) and noticed that dovecot.index last update was 16 days ago. So am I resyncing if the gap is over x days? If so, is there a way to

On Fri, 13 Mar 2015, Cliff Hayes writes: >> By closing off other avenues other than dovecot imap/pop/lda/etc., >> the indices will stay sync'd. > > I use dovecot's lda and dovecot's sieve filter. Then I'm not sure how mailboxes ever get out of sync. > So it looks like I need to compare the index/mailbox mtimes as you suggest. > > What am I looking for?

Nevermind. I figured it out. I left off the INDEX command. Sorry to spam the mail list :( Here is my mail_location for future reference / searches: mail_location = mbox:/var/spool/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u -----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces+chayes=afo.net at dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces+chayes=afo.net at dovecot.org]On Behalf Of Cliff Hayes

Ok, I think I have that figured out. I made the following mods: disable_plaintext_auth = no pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv and it seems to work. Now...about those enhanced logging capabilities. As promised, I see the enhanced logging. What does TOP and RETR mean? (I checked the manual first) Cliff -----Original Message----- From: Cliff Hayes [mailto:chayes at afo.net] Sent: Thursday,

Hello everyone, I've narrowed down my problem, so this should be an easy one for some smart person out there. I am moving from an old sendmail/Fedora 2 box to a new sendmail/Fedora 4 box and want to try Dovecot for pop3. The problem is, I can't get it to work. I have 9000 email accounts I will be moving to the new box. I've already tried and failed once. The problem is, Dovecot

Hello list, I recently had a user whose mailbox had gone out of sync. Webmail and client inbox totals had become vastly different and response times had become unacceptable. A doveadm force-resync fixed the problem nicely. This will no doubt happen again as we grow the service and I would like to have some type of indication at the server level so I can run a resync on a per-user basis as

Hello, I have not been using the home directory but I read in MailLocation.txt that I probably should. Does dovecot create each directory? What does it put in there? My server uses mbox format. My users all look like this: [root at sendmail log]# finger chayes Login: chayes Name: 50387.00 Directory: /home/chayes Shell: /sbin/nologin Never logged in.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 13 Mar 2015, Reindl Harald wrote: > Am 13.03.2015 um 14:29 schrieb Cliff Hayes: >> I looked in the place where dovecot logs everything ... the maillog. Are you sure about maillog? I mean: doveadm log find gives you that file? >> I didn't see anything but the log is huge and I could have easily missed >> it.

Am 13.03.2015 um 14:29 schrieb Cliff Hayes: > I looked in the place where dovecot logs everything ... the maillog. > I didn't see anything but the log is huge and I could have easily missed > it. > Is there a certain error or phrase I should look for? > If so please advise. man grep grep -i 'sync' maillog grep -i 'fail' maillog grep -i 'error' maillog

Hello all, I have 1.0 Alpha 4. Is it better to shut down sendmail, uninstall dovecot 1.0a4 then install 1.0a5, or just install 1.0a5 over the top of 1.0a4? Thanks, Cliff

I looked in the place where dovecot logs everything ... the maillog. I didn't see anything but the log is huge and I could have easily missed it. Is there a certain error or phrase I should look for? If so please advise. On 3/13/2015 3:05 AM, Steffen Kaiser wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 12 Mar 2015, Cliff Hayes wrote: > >> I recently

I can't seem to get imap virtual users to work with database authentication on new Scientific Linux 6.5 server with Sendmail 8.14.4 & Dovecot 2.0.9 Apparently I have to also create system users because sendmail/procmail/dovecot want to check directory ownership. So I created a database, made entry for the user, created the user chayes on the system. But %u always contains just chayes

I am setting up a new mail server using imap only on Scientific Linux 6.5 and dovecot 2.0.9. How do I fix this problem? I keep getting these errors regardless of permissions ... even up to 777. Oct 15 13:56:01 avalon dovecot: imap(chayes at domain.tld): Error: opendir(/var/email/chayes at domain.tld/Maildir) failed: Permission denied (euid=497(chayes) egid=12(mail) missing +r perm:

Cliff Hayes writes: > I didn't see anything but the log is huge and I could have easily missed > it. > Is there a certain error or phrase I should look for? > If so please advise. In my setup using mbox, typical log entries would be like (Common) Warning: UIDVALIDITY changed ({int} -> {int}) in mbox file ... Error: Next message unexpectedly corrupted in mbox file ...

Hello all, I have a new installation of Fedora 4 and Dovecot 1.4.Alpha4 A small percentage of my users are getting unable to pop mail from a client (ie: Outlook), they get continually prompted for username/password. The error they get is: Mailbox isn't a valid mbox file. When I look in the file, I don't see anything unusual. There's not much info on the Internet about this

Hello all, I am running Dovecot v1alpha4 on Fedora 4 from the command line (as opposed to deamon). Is there a recommended way to shut it down gracefully? Or do I just use killall -9 dovecot? I'm not using the included version, so I can't do SERVICE DOVECOT STOP. Thanks, Cliff

> On 09/03/2020 19:22 chayes at afo.net wrote: > > > Hello Dovecot, > Do to a misconfiguration, I have a bunch of users who do not have the standard folders. > I can create a routine to cycle through the users and look for the folders and run a command if there is one. > Is there a way to create the proper namespace for a user after the user has already been created? >

Thanks for the suggestions, but I need to do this after users have been created. Would this be the best way? To run this for each user: doveadm mailbox create -u $username -s Drafts doveadm mailbox subscribe -u $username Drafts doveadm mailbox create -u $username -s Junk doveadm mailbox subscribe -u $username Junk doveadm mailbox create -u $username -s Sent doveadm mailbox subscribe -u

I have a sendmail/dovecot imap/pop3 system that has been running with the following mail_location: mail_location = mbox:/var/empty:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u In order to reduce errors and simplify operation I removed imap and am now only responding to pop3. I'd like to also simplify the mail_location to get rid of index errors since I don't need indexes:

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 12 Mar 2015, Cliff Hayes wrote: > I recently had a user whose mailbox had gone out of sync. There are no log entries about broken sync or something something like that? - -- Steffen Kaiser -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEVAwUBVQKaP3z1H7kL/d9rAQKkCQf/VwbytrDRGDJT8Ado8J5L/melZ751jqME