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So, I _finally_ got the time to upgrade from 0.99.14 ... which I told myself I'd upgrade from once 1.0 was released... (yep, I've been _that_ busy :) So I read the Wiki page on 0.99->1.0 transition, and went through the config file - for all of about 5 or 10 minutes. I logged in at 11pm when nobody else should be using it, restarted dovecot with the new version, and logged in.

Greetings, I noticed a while back someone posted a patch/plugin that allowed Dovecot to use compressed mbox files. I'm now wondering how far that would put us from having compressed maildir? I have a server with more CPU than disk space, and while I can buy more HDD space, my backup solution doesn't make that practical. It seems to me that when looking for a message file, if it

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew of the mysterious fix to this problem that Curtis describes in his followup: "I vaguely remember something like this, but I don't recall the fix" I recently installed dovecot on a server running RHEL4-AS-U2 and have updated to RHEL latest dovecot package, dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1. Seeing as this is close to the version Curtis is running

Hi all, I'm working on setting up dovecot on a test system. When I try to start dovecot I get this error: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf line 504: Expecting '=' Line 504 in my config is this: auth default { passdb sql { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf } userdb sql { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf

> Sounds more like you just introduced a new self-created problem that would require yet another workaround.. ;-) Definitely wrong. Appending .dir to directories and .folder to folder files keeps files completely distinct and name collissions are not possible. > But what was not clear from your mail, is what exactly you identified as "the problems" with standard Maildir++

Greetings, all Last night I migrated our mail between two machines... both running dovecot 0.99.xx. In the process, I wanted to make some small changes, namely that new mail be delivered to mboxs in /var/mail/%u and IMAP mail stored in Maildirs at ~/.imap ... I tried using: default_mail_env = maildir:~/.imap/:INBOX=mbox:/var/mail/%u But had no luck. Is it only 1.0 that can work with two

When I attempted to import my Contacts list into dovecot, my mail client told me that the IMAP server did not support "Special" folders. Is there a way to to do the contacts, or sync up Contacts & Calendar from a database or something else? I'm using both Thunderbird and Outlook. Thanks. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Hi, I am trying to deal with the problem, that under regular mbox format a path can lead to either a file or a directory, but not both, while under IMAP, a path is usually both, a message folder containing subfolders. I found dovecot's approach to this problem, the Maildir++ layout described under http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MboxChildFolders , and was astonished to see, what problems come with

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3648 Bug ID: 3648 Summary: ssh client blocks itself by leaving unix domain socket alive after user Product: Portable OpenSSH Version: 9.3p1 Hardware: Other OS: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P5 Component: ssh

I'm using the standard Dovecot 0.99.14 on Fedora Core 4, with a Maildir++ mailbox. I've noticed what I think is an oddity in the way dovecot handles messages: According to the Maildir specification, a message in Maildir/new is a truly new message, which has not yet been touched by any reader. From an IMAP viewpoint, such a message should have the flag RECENT. However, if a message exists

Hi, just a simple question about dovecot: The mbox file format contains the SMTP envelope sender and transmission date in a FROM ... line preceding the RFC822 mail header and body. As far as I see at the moment, the IMAP protocol does not support transmission of that SMTP envelope data in either way, but confusingly uses the term ?envelope? for a structure describing the RFC822 mail header.

Hi, it becomes more and more common to have machines with dynamically assigned IP addresses online (e.g. DSL), which can be found through dynamic DNS entries. Unfortunately, the "Known Hosts" mechanism doesn't work for these machines: Since the entry is made for the IP address, there's a new entry every time the address changes. Therefore, an option should be invented

Hi all, I use dovecot 0.99.14-1 Can I change the default Dovecot IMAP Trash folder from .Draft to .Drafts? Dovecot make a .Draft folder and my e-mail clients (Thunderbird - Outlook Express) makes .Drafts folder. Thanks Marco

Hi, I just recently installed dovecot, and I am having the following problem: If I send an email to my account on this new machine, I can log in via SSH and use the unix mail command, and instantly my email is visible. If I turn on Thunderbird, it will show my new message. If Thunderbird was already on and had already checked the mailbox, even if I click on get new mail for that specific

Hi Folks OK - I'm ready to upgrade my version .99.11 to the latest release candidate but I haven't a clue how to do that on a live mail server without potential disruption. Can anyone help with advice on the best way to do this? CentOS latest release Running Sendmail/Procmail/Dovecot Thanks Chris

Hi there, anyone interested in Debian Dovecot 1.0.1 packages? I have created a package for etch/stable... Could do that for sarge/oldstable as well. Greets, Maurice.

I am currently running Dovecot on DoD production email server (Postfix) and the latest version the software available from Redhat is dovecot-0.99.11-8.EL4. According to you guys, this is ancient and I was wondering what is the safest and easiest way to get my version updated without breaking it... Thanks for any help and or points in the right direction... [root at mail ~]# dovecot -n Usage:

Hello! I'm trying the Dovecot as IMAP server, so I have one problem: I can log in to server, but nothing appears in mailclient and following message appears in log: imap(user): Feb 08 20:36:34 Fatal: We couldn't drop root group privileges dovecot: Feb 08 20:36:34 Error: child 21356 (imap) returned error 89 What could be wrong? Thanks for your answer. WBR, Paul.

Hi, Mac mail (a horribly mis-behaved client, it seems), has a horribly hard time deleting/copying large blocks of messages from one folder to another. The basic symptom is: 1. Select a bunch of messages 2. Click on delete 3. Wait for a _very_ long time. It also seems very slow on copying, so it may be the "trash folder copy on delete" that is really slowing it down. Anybody else seen

Hi all, I'm trying to replace the "Public Folders" functionality in Exchange server. At first I thought it'd be something easily do-able with an IMAP server so I immediately thought of Dovecot. I setup what I though would work and things started to go a little screwy with subscription settings and the like. I started off by making a public maildir folder (in