similar to: index and control files not being created

Hi. I recently mentioned in several posts, that I'd tended to use mbox rather than maildir, because you don't loose so much space (due to always allocating full blocks per maildir file and thus per mail). I made some tests of my archive, which consists of some 3,4 million mails at a total of 42GB). Most of these mails are probably normal sized, but there are also some with bigger

Hi All, I've got a samba/cups pdf writer going thanks to PeteFwee and Wolfram Q and a few others... the cups pdf backed i used has a default of username-date.pdf which I didn't like and wanted the name of the job that got send in the printer q on the winslows client. The only way I could see in my very limited experience was to grab the %%Title out of the postscript file and make sure

Since I am using dovecot I do not have courier installed, but Courier had a very handy tool for making maildir folders called `maildirmake` which I used in some automated backup scripts. How do I duplicate maildirmake in dovecot? for example: #!/bin/bash # v1.2a Testing for new dovecot install # Archive mail from folders without [0-9]{4} Maildirs # after they are 21 days old to a yearly folder

Good day! is there an easy way to restore e.g. deleted mails and/or mail directories? let me specify: I'm running dovecot 1.2.9 on a current ubuntu lts. It is set to Maildir and I backup the folder with the users maildata nightly via rsync. now, when someone deletes a mail that they still need, and I copy it back from the backup, it will not be visible to mail clients. When I change the

On 2016-03-10 15:00, Alessio Cecchi wrote: > Il 10/03/2016 10:38, Tom Sommer ha scritto: >> I enabled zlib compression, so new mails are saved compressed. >> >> Now I want to convert the old mails to gzip with the find and gzip >> command, but now I don't know which files are already gzip compressed >> by >> dovecot. > > Simple check if the file

Hello all, I'm not sure if this question is better posed to a Fedora group because I have only had this problem since I upgraded from F9 to F11, but I figured that the specialised knowledge here might help me more... I have been getting these entries in syslog since upgrading. Today for instance I got: **Unmatched Entries** dovecot: Dovecot v1.2.0 starting up (core dumps disabled): 1

OK, I am brand new to this so please bear with me. I have an FreeBSD 6.1 STABLE system. Postfix is installed with qpopper. The mailboxes are standard mbox format. I just installed Dovecot. At some point I want to update to a mdir format, etc., but quite frankly I do not know how to go about that. In any case, I shut down qpopper and started Dovecot. I modified the Dovecot.conf file SSL settings

Hello All, I am new to Dovecot and the Dovecot mailing list. I am trying to migrate an existing Exim + qpopper - mbox (pop3 only) installation over to Exim + Dovecot using mdir (pop3 and imap) And am running into problems with preserving the XUIDL headers. I am running Dovecot 2.0.14 I have used the mb2md.pl script : http://dovecot.org/tools/mb2md.pl from this page

Timo, I did further study of the user/group permissions. Applying the below patch will make no difference to virtually everyone out there. Those that have default uid/gid ownership won't see any change as the gid already matches so the fchown() action won't be attempted. Those that have sgid will still see the normal expected fchown() enforced by the kernel which becomes a duplicated

Anybody finding a huge mailfile named webmaster in their mqueue? I'm wondering what/how this gets there? Just found one on one server that was over 2 gigs! Yuck!!! So far, this has been on CentOS 3 machines using sendmail. Best, John Hinton

Greetings; Trying to follow along with the wiki2 setup instructions and thought I'd hit a snag with the first "send me a mail" snippet as it took several minutes to arrive, so I assume that somehow procmail was involved in the delivery and my procmail runs mail thought a whole bunch of checks before finally handing it off to a mailfile as /var/mail/gene. Then the next script

Hi there, after upgrading from 0.99 to 1.2, the following errors appear in the error log: Mar 09 15:50:23 POP3(cwchbodega): Error: fchown(/home/cwchbodega/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log.newlock, -1, 12(mail)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=653(cwchbodega), group based on /var/mail/cwchbodega) Mar 09 15:50:53 POP3(cwchbodega): Error:

I have some public mailboxes setup in 1.0.0, location = maildir:/egr/mail/shared/org:CONTROL=%h/Maildir/dovecot/public/control/org:INDEX=%h/Maildir/dovecot/public/indexes/org I also have a dovecot-shared file in the maildir folders so messages that are added to the inbox get a decent set of default permissions. However, I think dovecot is also trying to fchown the index files (stored in a user

greetings, i'd like to ask for a certain feature request. dovecot:maildir_uidlist_recreate() to set the gid of new files based on the parent directory group ownership and normally that's desired, an appropriate security method. on our server, we use directory permissions to more stringently isolate access between users and services. we have three group ids used for this, and i'll

Regardless of the mail client no user can modify, move, delete or subscribe an imap folder with Dovecot >1.2.1 (meanwhile 1.2.5). Dovecot apparently have some dotlock problems: (From dovecot.log) Oct 02 14:58:19 IMAP(jcci): Error: fchown(/candeias/home/jcci/.mail/Maildir/subscriptions.lock, -1, 0(root)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=1003(management), group based on

hi all, "uncle"! i've thrown up my hands with cyrus, and am looking for a 'better alternative' ... i'm brand new to dovecot (haven't even built it yet ...), and have spent the last while reading through the LIST archives here. apart from the TECHNICAL aspects, which seem _more_ than adequate/competitive, i'm most attracted by a comment abt this

Hi, We actually have a mail hosting solutions with aprox. 100 thousand of email account, where about 90% of a customers use POP3 like email configuration. About a few mounths (we perfomed a lot of migration throught mbox email software to Maildir with dovecot) but i can see that the performance is very poor and receive complaint about delays of autentications of accounts. The solution

Hi Timo, dovecot 1.2.0 is great! Faster and more stable on mboxes that 1.1.x by far... good job :-) Today I stumbled over a strange problem when I tried to subscribe an existing Mailbox (mbox), which doesn't work. Thunderbird IMAP log -------------------- 9932[4124558]: 40f3498:imap.fh-trier.de:A:SendData: 11 subscribe "Mail/Archiv/1998" 9932[4124558]: ReadNextLine

Hi, After upgrading to 1.2 I started getting fchown errors in the log. They look like: Jul 12 18:32:54 jukebox dovecot: deliver(kim): fchown(/data/mail/kim/.lists.mythtv-users/tmp/1247416373.M857540P19162.jukebox.alleroedderne.adsl.dk, -1, 500(k im)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=12(mail), group based on /data/mail/kim/.lists.mythtv-users) I have tried to get rid of the by changing

Dear all, Getting lots of these errors in our maillog with the INDEX changed: dovecot: IMAP(ghenry): fchown() failed with file /home/ghenry/Maildir/index/.INBOX/dovecot.index.tmp: Operation not permitted For .log and .cache as well. We have: location = maildir:/home/%u/Maildir:CONTROL=%h/Maildir/control:INDEX=%h/Maildir/index I looked in safe-mkdir.c and saw: fchown() failed for (line 42)