similar to: Merging maildirs

I have postfix/dovecot setup on a virtual gentoo server. It's been in service for almost two years without any issues. Now I want to set up a spare server to replicate mails from the one running. I copied the vm files to the second host server, changed the ip, hostname and hosts file for the copy and followed the dovecot replication doc. The last point in the doc tells to rundovecot

I have some emails that I think are in the Postfix delivery queue going to Dovecot, but didn't get mapped to their alias (because I didn't have all the alias entries in when they were queued). I'm wondering if this trick would work. I have the mail being delivered to /home/mail/%Ld/%Ln/mail and am wondering if I could make a symlink at /home/mail/example.com/foo -> bar and add a

I'm running dovecot-1.0.9 on Gentoo Linux. I recently observed a large increase in disk usage on this dedicated mailserver. I attribute it to high spam traffic and/or large attachments for legit email retained on the server. How can I run a command equivalent to an IMAP client's 'Compact Folder' on the entire tree of maildirs under each /home/(user)? Thanks.

Hi, This is the one thing holding me back from switching to Dovecot... Can anyone give a realistic timeframe for when Shred maildirs will be officially supported? Thanks... other than that missing piece, Dovecot rocks! Charles

Hi, I'm sorry because this mail is a little bit off-topic, but Timo's email titled "1.0RC7 Released" made me think about a possible issue for me. I have to move an old dovecot installation (1.0b2) from an i386 server to a new x86_64 server running latest available dovecot. My concern is about moving all my users' mail stored as maildir onto this new server. What would be

I saw some stuff about AFS maildirs awhile back, and dovecot seems happy being running via ssh from offlineimap with :INDEX=/tmp/dovecot-%u, but what I'd really like to know is has anyone got a functional dovecot installation with AFS and GSSAPI sasl support that gets the correct users's AFS tokens? Thanks -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------

I have a situation with many users and an existing mail delivery agent. Seems like I once saw an imaptest program which I imagine might be used to pre-index maildirs. For example... - remember which users and user maildirs have changed since last pre-index - when system quiet pre-index any maildirs which have had mail delivered and no access by a mail client (using some

I managed to get a bunch of zero-byte files in my maildirs today, and Dovecot choked completely (at least for pop3 users); It wouldn't download any messages at all, and the mailbox would often say "-ERR [IN-USE]" when doing a STAT Aria

Hi, I've some dot-files in the Maildir/ folder. These files appear in the Mailbox listing, but of course they can't be accessed. In the previous dovecot versions these files were hidden. Matthias

How would it be possible to configure dovecot (2.0.16) in such a way that it would serve several maildirs (e.g., INBOX, INBOX.Drafts, INBOX.Sent, forum_email, [Gmail].Trash, etc.) per virtual user? I am only able to specify a single maildir, but I want all maildirs in /home/my-username/mail/account1/ to be served. e.g., /etc/dovecot/passwd:

Is there way to import old plain mboxes via dsync? It complains about lack of index files: ponto:(admin)~>dsync mirror mbox:~/mail dsync(admin): Error: Failed to sync mailbox sent-mail: Mailbox GUIDs are not permanent without index files dsync(admin): Error: Failed to sync mailbox saved-messages: Mailbox GUIDs are not permanent without index files dsync(admin): Error: Failed to sync mailbox

I am cleaning up some old users, and found that in every maildir folder there is an empty file called maildirfolder, created at the time the original dovecot was installed. Is this empty file necessary for dovecot, or is it left there in an upgrade proces and can it be removed? Dovecot 2.1.7, on Debian wheezy. -- Roel Wagenaar, Linux-User #469851 with the Linux Counter;

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 11 Mar 2014, Graham Leggett wrote: > On 11 Mar 2014, at 7:32 PM, Graham Leggett <minfrin at sharp.fm> wrote: > >> Giving the different prefix a try on a test account, a mailbox directory is created, but the rest of the maidir directories (new, cur, tmp) aren't created, and the error below is returned. >> >>

Hi! I'm using Dovecot 2.1.7 on Debian Wheezy 32-bit (package version is 1:2.1.7-7+deb7u1) with maildirs. My problem is that the incremental indexing of maildirs with squat takes a very long time... I don't know if it reindexes anything, but it seems it iterates though all messages on each search query and reads them. It works fast only on successive queries within several minutes,

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 1 Mar 2017, Ian Evans wrote: > I'm sure someone here is going to point me to some eureka moment method of > exporting the thunderbird folders to some format, sftp'ing them to the > server and importing. Just want to be careful that I don't mess up the > current batch of emails on the imap server. Some time ago

On Mar 2, 2017 2:11 AM, "Steffen Kaiser" <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 1 Mar 2017, Ian Evans wrote: I'm sure someone here is going to point me to some eureka moment method of > exporting the thunderbird folders to some format, sftp'ing them to the > server and importing. Just want to be careful that

On 22-09-2017 4:34, Stroller wrote: [...] > > I think my main question is whether there's any reason I shouldn't > just rsync the maildirs across from the old mail server to the new > one? > > There aren't many clients using this server, so I don't care if > clients have to redownload all their messages (in fact, I expect > they'll probably end up

I would like to delete old mail from root's sent mailbox but doveadm throws errors when I try to do this, not wanting to process root's mail at all (I am running the commands as root, naturally) # doveadm expunge -u root mailbox Sent SENTBEFORE 1-Apr-2018 doveadm(root): Error: Invalid settings in userdb: userdb returned 0 as uid doveadm(root): Error: User lookup failed: Invalid user

(Sorry about previous mail) > On May 4, 2018, at 07:45, Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi> wrote: > Dovecot has hardcoded root prevention. For delivery, too. So dovecot cannot expire, reindex, clean, repair, etc root mail? The mail is crontab mail that is sent out to users via mutt. What would be the "right? way to do this? (The cron tasks run as root because they are scanning

On Fri May 04 2018 10:59:22 GMT-0400 (Eastern Standard Time), LuKreme <kremels at kreme.com> wrote: > The mail is crontab mail that is sent out to users via mutt. What would be the "right? way to do this? (The cron tasks run as root because they are scanning system logs on behalf of certain users and those scans cannot be run as the user.) Alias the local 'root' user to