similar to: dovecot-lda without starting dovecot?

On Fri, 3 Nov 2017 17:53:47 +0200 (EET) Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi> wrote: > > On November 3, 2017 at 1:50 PM Stephan von Krawczynski > > <skraw.ml at ithnet.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > we have a setup where SMTP/LDA and POP3/IMAP are on different physical > > hosts. They share the mail data via an external storage.

On Sat, 4 Nov 2017 01:57:31 +0200 Sami Ketola <sami.ketola at dovecot.fi> wrote: > >> > >> While it might be possible to disable all the other services except > >> master I must ask why? How would the users be accessing their mails then? > >> > >> Sami > > > > Hello Sami, > > > > you did not read my first post. We

On Sun, 5 Nov 2017 10:44:25 +0200 Sami Ketola <sami.ketola at dovecot.fi> wrote: > > On 4 Nov 2017, at 10.31, Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw.ml at ithnet.com> > > wrote: > > > > On Sat, 4 Nov 2017 01:57:31 +0200 > > Sami Ketola <sami.ketola at dovecot.fi> wrote: > >> Again that does not answer my question why? Why do you want all the

On Tue, 7 Nov 2017 21:40:55 +0200 Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote: > On 7 Nov 2017, at 21.33, Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw.ml at ithnet.com> wrote: > > > > > > Me again have to stress that our former implementation of the lda process > > did do exactly nothing to all the dovecot files, and everything worked > > pretty well. We had no problems

On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 12:05:46 +0200 Sami Ketola <sami.ketola at dovecot.fi> wrote: > > On 20 Nov 2017, at 10.50, Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw.ml at ithnet.com> > > wrote: > > > > AFAIK no complex director stuff would be needed then, right? > > The second sentence implies that using file locking should also be enough, > > which dovecot does. >

On Mon, 6 Nov 2017 08:37:11 +0200 Sami Ketola <sami.ketola at dovecot.fi> wrote: > > On 5 Nov 2017, at 12.55, Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw.ml at ithnet.com> > > wrote: Sorry to say this setup works flawlessly for years. The only > > addition we will make now is to do the delivery with dovecot-lda. > > Everything else (including multiple dovecot pop/imap

> On 4 Nov 2017, at 10.31, Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw.ml at ithnet.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 4 Nov 2017 01:57:31 +0200 > Sami Ketola <sami.ketola at dovecot.fi> wrote: >> Again that does not answer my question why? Why do you want all the locking >> problems and multi-access problems that come with setup like that? What is >> the actual problem that you

> On 3 Nov 2017, at 18.23, Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw.ml at ithnet.com> wrote: > Hello Aki, > > let me explain this a bit more. We do not intend to use only some copied > binary. Of course we would do a full installation of dovecot and pidgeonhole, > only we question if it is necessary to start the dovecot init-file bringing up > the dovecot

> On 5 Nov 2017, at 12.55, Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw.ml at ithnet.com> wrote: > Sorry to say this setup works flawlessly for years. The only addition we > will make now is to do the delivery with dovecot-lda. Everything else > (including multiple dovecot pop/imap servers) will stay as is. > Hopefully dovecot-lda does not fiddle around with the indexes too much, as we >

> On 20 Nov 2017, at 10.50, Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw.ml at ithnet.com> wrote: > > AFAIK no complex director stuff would be needed then, right? > The second sentence implies that using file locking should also be enough, > which dovecot does. You are building such a complex system and then you think that creating director layer would be complex? Just out of curiosity

On Mon, 6 Nov 2017 09:50:16 -0500 Tanstaafl <tanstaafl at libertytrek.org> wrote: > On 11/6/2017, 4:01:19 AM, Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw.ml at ithnet.com> > wrote: > > Still we are not content with it touching/locking dovecot.index.log. If > > someone pointed at one location in the code where this could be disabled we > > would implement a new param for

On 07/11/2017 09:18, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > On Mon, 6 Nov 2017 09:50:16 -0500 > Tanstaafl <tanstaafl at libertytrek.org> wrote: > > On 11/6/2017, 4:01:19 AM, Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw.ml at ithnet.com> > wrote: Still we are not content with it touching/locking dovecot.index.log. If > someone pointed at one location in the code where this could be

> On Aug 20, 2017, at 1:32 PM, Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw at ithnet.com> wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 12:29:49 -0400 > KT Walrus <kevin at my.walr.us> wrote: > >>> On Aug 20, 2017, at 11:52 AM, Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw at ithnet.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> On Sat, 19 Aug 2017 21:39:18 -0400 >>> KT Walrus

On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 12:29:49 -0400 KT Walrus <kevin at my.walr.us> wrote: > > On Aug 20, 2017, at 11:52 AM, Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw at ithnet.com> > > wrote: > > > > On Sat, 19 Aug 2017 21:39:18 -0400 > > KT Walrus <kevin at my.walr.us> wrote: > > > >>> On Aug 18, 2017, at 4:05 AM, Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw at

> On Aug 20, 2017, at 11:52 AM, Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw at ithnet.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 19 Aug 2017 21:39:18 -0400 > KT Walrus <kevin at my.walr.us> wrote: > >>> On Aug 18, 2017, at 4:05 AM, Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw at ithnet.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 00:24:39 -0700 (PDT) >>> Joseph

On Tue, 7 Nov 2017 19:19:23 +0200 Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote: > On 7 Nov 2017, at 9.15, Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw.ml at ithnet.com> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 07 Nov 2017 13:19:12 +1000 > > Noel Butler <noel.butler at ausics.net> wrote: > > > >> mail_location Optionally disable indexes using :INDEX=MEMORY > >>

> On November 3, 2017 at 1:50 PM Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw.ml at ithnet.com> wrote: > > > Hello, > > we have a setup where SMTP/LDA and POP3/IMAP are on different physical hosts. > They share the mail data via an external storage. > Now we would like to use dovecot-lda on the smtp host, so we wonder if the > lda binary works without starting dovecot from

On 11/6/2017, 4:01:19 AM, Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw.ml at ithnet.com> wrote: > Still we are not content with it touching/locking dovecot.index.log. If > someone pointed at one location in the code where this could be disabled we > would implement a new param for switching that off. ????????????????????????? Dovecot's indexing is one of its main features, and WHY it is so

On 7 Nov 2017, at 9.15, Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw.ml at ithnet.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 07 Nov 2017 13:19:12 +1000 > Noel Butler <noel.butler at ausics.net> wrote: > >> mail_location Optionally disable indexes using :INDEX=MEMORY >> >> don't use this on IMAP boxes, but is safe to use on SMTP and POP3's >> boxes though >>

On 7 Nov 2017, at 21.33, Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw.ml at ithnet.com> wrote: > > > Me again have to stress that our former implementation of the lda process did > do exactly nothing to all the dovecot files, and everything worked pretty > well. We had no problems in years. So I really wonder if it wouldn't be the > best way to simply cut away all the heavy dovecot