similar to: Trying to Hide Namespace - new configuration options?

I've noticed when I select a folder of messages (Thunderbird) and mark them all as read (or unread) it produces the following IMAP transcript: Source Destination Info c.c.c.c s.s.s.s Request: DONE s.s.s.s c.c.c.c Response: 20 OK Idle completed. c.c.c.c s.s.s.s Request: 21 uid store 1:20 -Flags (\Seen) s.s.s.s c.c.c.c Response: * 1 FETCH (UID 1 FLAGS (\Recent NonJunk)) c.c.c.c s.s.s.s

I'm sure this is related to name-spaces, but for some reason [brain damage perhaps? :) ] I can't seem to figure out how to fix it. In TBird, for example, I have a folder tree that looks like this Inbox -| Folder-A Folder-B Folder-C Folder-A Folder-B Folder-C And Folder-A, Folder-B, Folder-C are the same folders, just shown twice. [In two different hierarchies.] I'm using

Hi, I've straced a few dovecot processes after hitting purge on a large Trash folder (35,000 messages). It looks like it is going through each message, one by one, and removing (unlinking) each one. Is there not a more efficient way to do this? If Dovecot knows the whole folder is being deleted (ie a Trash purge), could it do something clever with the filesystem to just remove the whole

Hi, I am new to dovecot and I am a bit confused with how namespaces/prefixes/separators are handled by the clients and dovecot... I tried to understand the desciption from the conf file but without success. With each conf I create the following path /f1/f2 on the client (thunderbird) and get the following on the dovecot server: PREFIX= and separator=/ => .INBOX.f1.f2 + .INBOXTrash

Dear Timo, Would there be any sense in giving Dovecot the option to split folders into multiple subfolders when they reached a specified size (probably message count) limit? Dovecot would monitor folders and when they reached, say, 10,000 messages, silently split the folder on the filesystem to ensure that access remains fast. I know that Dovecot scales very well but this would give

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

Hello, could someone help. I have installed Dovecot+SSL+TLS+Thunderbird and all is well except one thing. After installing TBird and adding the required data (smtp server and auth info, imap/pop server and auth info) I am able to view mail in my TBird Inbox BUT Trash and Sent don't work - it pops up saying folder doesn't exist on the server - can't the darn thing, auto create a folder

It looks like this is already the rule for maildir, where one can't remove the folder if any files or subdirectories are present. I'd like to get this option for mbox folders, as I'd like to prevent "accidents" where users accidentally delete large folders by clicking the wrong thing and then too-quickly approving the confirmation dialog that pops up. (Impatient upper

Greetings all... Can we delete maildir files directly from the file system? Basically, we use dovecot to train spam, and we want to delete messages that are older than 30 days, using a simple "find /maildirs -cname +30 -name *imap-server* -exec rm {} \;" I have seen a post a while ago saying that dovecot can rebuild the indexes, but I don't remember if it's when the index is

i'm trying to setup autocreate in 2.0. in mail.conf, ... namespace private { separator = / prefix = "" inbox = yes hidden = no list = yes subscriptions = yes } namespace public { separator = / prefix = "Public/"

Interesting. While I don't use mbox (dbox or maildir) I wouldn't think that would matter. Your namespace layout looks nearly the same as my own. But to verify what's going on - post the output of "doveconf namespace". Possibly just reviewing that output may tell you enough - otherwise share it (fully) here. -- Daniel On 1/23/2020 12:46 PM, Gregory Sloop wrote: >

Hi, I'm testing a dovecot installation using thunderbird as imap client. The first user I configured has regolar folders: Drafts, Sent and Trash, and thunderbirs shows each one with its icon. The second user shows these folders with a standard icon, and I'm not able to save email in sent. I cann't understand why there is this difference, and how dovecot manage these folder. Can anyone

Using mbox format and this namespace namespace { inbox = yes hidden = yes prefix = INBOX/ } [Though I've also tried, seemingly, a million different namespace options to "fix" my problem.] It's a migrated setup from a 1.x dovecot install from Ubuntu 12.04, now on 16.04 The problem is in TBird [I haven't tested with any other mail clients] and IMAP; with that

Hi All, I've read a bit about this but don't really see a full solution anywhere. Has anyone actually got a good fix for this? Telling a user they are over quota then not allowing them to delete anything does seem the height of perversion. =) Question is - is this even a problem for the IMAP server? Or should the MUA be detecting over quota problems and then issuing the right

Hi, I'm running dovecot-1.0.7-7.el5 on a CentOS 5.5x64 server, accessed through Thunderbird clients. Thunderbird is reporting constant disconnections from the server; the maillog shows constant repeats of Apr 4 16:39:21 holly dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<?user?>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:172.31.255.193, lip=::ffff:172.31.255.1 Apr 4 16:39:21 holly dovecot: IMAP(?user?): mbox

I have been diligently reading about namespace in the DC doc and what I can find in Google. Like the blind men and the elephant, I see the nature of some individual bits of namespace, some syntax and the overall purpose (overriding defaults and providing extensions), but I don't see the whole thing and how it is used. I am looking to do some maildir testing in what is a mbox default

I've got a few errors I'm trying to track down, probably all related... Aug 15 14:03:14 xyzzy dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<jeff>, method=PLAIN, rip=100.8.22.62, lip=132.238.254.34, mpid=4803, TLS, session=<fLvfl85WntFkCBY+> Aug 15 14:03:14 xyzzy dovecot: imap(jeff): Error: namespace configuration error: Duplicate namespace prefix: "" Aug 15 14:03:14 xyzzy

On Wed, May 25, 2016 4:31 pm, Philip McGaw wrote: > Did user historically have POP set up? Philip, thanks no, not for a long time, IMAP/143/StartTLS on old laptop > If you still have access to the old laptop set up imap and move the > emails back. yes, I have old laptop here. sorry, not sure how to, is that inside TBird, or how ? (not very familiar with TBird...) >> another OT:

This weekend we had a runaway email endless loop. When it was killed after 18 hours, my inbox had 135,000 messages in it...there were two messages that were being endlessly sent and bounced and I'm on the postmaster alias. Thunderbird was able to do a mass select of one of the two messages, and deleted 65,000, but after that it locked up. I ended up firing up Pine to do the final

Hello all, For some years now, I've been using Thunderbird for dovecot. I am not very satisfied with t/b so I thought of using m/s outlook but then I thought that I want to distance my clients from office products. I have a newly created dovecot installation on a very small site. Three nodes, all x86 Windows 7 professional with an ubuntu v14.04 server (x86 again) running dovecot 1.2.17.