similar to: maildir very dirty sync option

http://dovecot.org/patches/1.1/maildir-dirty-syncs.diff This patch adds a new maildir_very_dirty_syncs setting. If set to "yes", Dovecot assumes it's the only one changing the cur/ directory (so other MDAs can add mails to new/ without problems). This makes it possible to avoid rescanning the cur/ directory all the time looking for filenames. It also looks like (in stress testing)

I apologise, because I'm sure this subject has been done to death, but I want to migrate from Courier to Dovecot. 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

I'm trying to configure Dovecot 2.0.7. In the Dovecot Wiki for Maildirs it says that Maildirs are almost always located in ~/Maildir. I'm a Linux end user, not a programmer, so I may be wrong in this; but isn't the notation "~/" used for system users only to reference their home page; /home/<user>? If that's the case, then does that mean that Maildirs can

I'm working on switching a domain from a Cyrus+postfix+procmail to Dovecot+postfix+procmail (using Maildir). It works great, except one small problem. I cannot figure out what the permissions for my Maildir directories should be. Can anyone point me to a doc or just a few pointers on what the permissions of the Maildirs should be? The only way I seem to be able to make this config work is to

I currently have Dovecot running on a SuSE SLES 10 mail server with postfix as the MTA and a number of real linux users. I have postfix delivering to Maildir records. We are going to convert to a virtual user/domain system with PostfixAdmin. I have checked out all of our settings and they appear to work well except for a problem with authenticating against mySQL using MD5-Crypt; plaintext works

very_dirty_syncs helped a lot - the problems still happen but only about every 30 minutes. It seems this flag prevents re-indexing on whatever was constantly inducing it (with every client-check, if there was a change written to the directory, is my best guess watching the logs go). I still get all the same symptoms, but far less frequently. I'm inclined to believe, as trivial as it may be

Hello, I'm about to migrate a number of existing users who have been using POP3 with emails stored locally in KMail's Maildir format into an IMAP solution based on Dovecot. Will it be possible to simply move all the KDE Maildir folders from the local PCs to the Maildir folder on the IMAP server running Dovecot and then have the emails accessible on the server, or will this most likely

I'm unable to get dovecot-lda with sieve filtering to deliver into maildir folders. The examples on the wiki explicitly say "mbox", so I'm wondering, does the dovecot-lda sieve implementation not support filtering into maildir folders? -frank

Hi, There's been some demand from users to make it possible to use the period character (.) in folder names, but that is impossible when the folder separator is already period. Is there any possibility of replacing that which another separator, say a / ? -Mikko

Hi all, Is it possible to set the maildir format at mailbox level? I'd like to us Maildir++ for most of my clients, but want to emulate the other one for one of my users. Can this be done with dovecot? Thanks Bgs

I'm a little confused about some of these terms. What is: .imap/.imap/ (other than directories) mbox INBOX (I think I have this one) maildir ??????? I'm not sure how all of these things work together. Thanks, Andy

/ I'm testing a new setup of postfix using deliver to put the messages into the user's maildir, and am curious if there is a way to make deliver create custom maildirs when it delivers to a valid user without a maildir? Right now it only creates the inbox, I'd like it to create the .sent/ .Trash/ and .SPAM dirs. Is this possible? Thanks -------------------------------------- /

I'm in the process of migrating a large number of maildirs to a 3rd party dovecot server (from a dovecot server). Tests have shown that using imap to sync the accounts doesn't preserve the uidl for pop3 access. My current attempt is to convert the maildir to mbox and add an X-UIDL header in the process. Run a second dovecot that serves the converted mbox. But dovecot's docs say,

Hi, I have a Maildir store (about 500 GB) on a linux (redhat 8) server which I am trying to mirror to another identical server. I have 4 GB of ram on both machines. I am using rsync 2.5.5. At present the machines are on the same lan (100Mbit). Everytime I run the rsync, it runs for a short amount of time, (anywhere from 5-20 minutes) and then one of the machines (either the source or the

Hello, I have issue with dovecot 2.2.13 I want to change all Maildirs to mdbox format and I do it per partes, so I change mail_location for user (in sql), than I use doveadm sync -u user path_to_maildir and everything works mostly fine. But now I found that when I migrate quite huge Maildir (about 24G of mails) to mdbox, after sync the final mdbox is twice as big as source Maildir (48GB). I

Hello, I have a setup where there are multiple maildir users, one of them being the pop/imap server itself, the others are for example a maildir capable webmail and message replication. I would like to evaluate Dovecot, but I wonder how would its binary indexes and logs fit into this picture. After running through http://wiki.dovecot.org/IndexFiles I'm not sure how well would Dovecot

Hi, I'm a happy user of dovecot since the 0.99.x days, and recently switched my user base to 1.0b2. Now, to the point, I got a request (from marketing) to share a lot of maildirs between two (and possibly more) accounts. Those two accounts have differents uid/gid. The maildirs are actually in one of the account. I thought I could possibly craft a public namespace for those maildirs as

Hi, I've heard that for Dovecot/Mailir systems there are filesystems that are optimised for the situation of many small files in one folder. Could I possibly have some feedback on what the recommended filesystems are? I've heard of ReiserFS but was wondering what other options there are and how they compare. If I get a good comprehensive response I'll build a wiki summary page

The main reason is that I don't want to provide backup user with unnecessary write permissions within maildirs and mail user within backup logs dir. I was talking about mail_user:mail_group 0750 on dirs and 0640 on files. (Or, possibly, mail_user:backup_group 2750 and 2640.) 26.12.2014, 11:19, "Tobi" <tobster at brain-force.ch>: > Whats the reason you do not want to use

Hi again, I'm still trying to find out if anyone knows the correct way to either switch the existing Maildir multiple file format to the single file format I believe known as MBox. Failing that, though it'll mean a LOT of work for me to manually convert all of the existing Maildirs, how do I get dovecot to work in future in MBox single file format. I tried