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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 in advance. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was

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

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

Dear all, I have set up a series of special-use mailboxes in the default namespace differing by capitalisation of the names, mainly to capture multiple mailboxes with autoexpunge namespace inbox { ... mailbox Trash { auto = no autoexpunge = 30d special_use = \Trash } mailbox trash { auto = no autoexpunge = 30d special_use = \Trash } ... }

Hi all, I set up dovecot a couple of months ago and am having trouble getting autoexpunge=30d to work on my Trash and Junk mailboxes. Not sure why not because I'm not getting error messages in my log. Running "doveadm search -u <user> mailbox Junk savedbefore 30d" shows me many messages (I've got messages back to mid-May, and a couple of other users have them back to

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 13 Dec 2016, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 12/13/2016 4:48 AM, Thorsten Hater <thorsten.hater at gmail.com> wrote: >> I have set up a series of special-use mailboxes in the default namespace >> differing by capitalisation of the names, mainly to capture multiple >> mailboxes >> with autoexpunge >> >>

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

Does dovecot have any dictionary attack defenses yet? In the past I have had to implement defense from outside dovecot, but since dovecot is at the front lines and therefore is the first to know I'm hoping by now there is something we can set. For example, a limit on access failures per minut/hour/day or some such. If not why not?

I'm trying to understand autoexpunge, but the documentation is just not clear. Hopefully, someone can clear up a few questions. http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxSettings says the following: autoexpunge=<time>: (v2.2.20+) Automatically at user deinitialization expunge all mails in this mailbox whose saved-timestamp is older than <time> (e.g. autoexpunge=30d). This removes the

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

> On Feb 7, 2016, at 10:59 AM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote: >> On 07 Feb 2016, at 04:50, Tom Johnson <tj at terramar.net> wrote: >> >> I have some users where I'd like to expunge their mail at different times. >> .... >> .... >> Is there a way to do some sort of lookup for this? Or is this beyond the ability of the autoexpunge

I have some users where I'd like to expunge their mail at different times. For example, I may have some users who I want to expunge everything from every folder at 30 days. Others where I'd like to expunge everything at 90 days. And still others where I only want to expunge mail from the Trash and Junk folders, and nowhere else. Is there a way to do some sort of lookup for this? Or

Hello, just upgraded to Dovecot 2.2.27 and altered dovecot.conf to contain autoexpunge directive for Spam mailbox (yes it's migrated from Courier 3 years ago): namespace inbox { prefix = INBOX. separator = . inbox = yes

> 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

When using autoexpunge = 14 days in, for example. The trash of junk folders, does that physically remove the messages from disk or simply mark them to be removed and some other action needs to be taken? I ask because my mail server crapped out today and I discovered a Junk folder with 490,000 messages in it, and the sa-spamd and mariadb processes died a horrible death. Haven't had time to

Hello! I have the autoexpunge settings defined inside protocol imap thus (and it works): protocol imap { ? mail_plugins = quota notify replication imap_quota imap_sieve ? namespace inbox { ??? location = ??? mailbox Ham { ????? autoexpunge = 365 days ??? } ??? mailbox Spam { ????? autoexpunge = 365 days ??? } ??? mailbox Trash { ????? autoexpunge = 180 days ??? } ??? prefix = ? }

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:

So, returning from the LDAP userdb does not change situation. As I said, I would to set folder names dynamicaly, without setting up a mailbox in advance. Here the problem is discussed http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2013-August/092023.html but no solution is found apart from defining the namespace in the static config, see here http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2013-August/092053.html As

Dear all, is there a way to allow users to set up something like autoexpunge on an individual IMAP folder basis? The idea I implemented does not seem to work, namely returning namespace/inbox/mailbox/Bla/autoexpunge=6h from a userdb, which results in Debug: Unknown userdb setting: plugin/namespace/inbox/mailbox/Bla/autoexpunge=6h >From older questions on the mailing list I gather that the