similar to: running DC and UWIMAP on the same box

There are three applications that have their mitts on files on my mail server, which is running AIXV5.3 and UWIMAP and mbox format. The mail folders and INBOXES are native to that machine, but also are NFS exported to a login server and a mailing list server. All three machines are running the lockd daemon. Everybody wants to lock differently 1) procmail (delivering for sendmail), which

I have Dovecot 1.0 in trial use by the IT staff, and have some locking questions Background, the mail server runs procmail, sendmail and NFS exports the user homedir and mailbox to a) a login shell host and b) a mailing list services host. It runs UWIMAP on the usual ports and dovecot on a arbitrary port number. Because of concern with NFS and file access contention. I have the following

I thought this would be relatively straightforward....I would create .subscriptions by doing an ls -1 of ~/mail. I'm running into some problems. 1) the ~/mail directories haves directories in them for 5% of the accounts! AFAIK, our mail sevice has always been UWIMAP with mbox format INBOXes, and it was my understanding that the mbox format is flat and NOT hierarchical and thus I'd

The CFO of our college, a most formidable man, had decided to go Blackberry and Something Functional Must Be Done. We've had some users who we've not supported (and things got better for them when we switched from UWIMAP to Dovecot). BB, of course, has their half-baked sorta-IMAP-compliant client (and we do NOT want the BB Enterprise Server) that persistently keeps grabbing the

I guess the alert function is not part of the spec, because it appears to be unimplemented in Dovecot, even though most clients implement it. Timo, I would hope this would be easy to implement, and it's functionality that will be valuable to every installation. Here's why. America recently had the tragedy of a shooting rampage on a large university campus (yes, America should do

My production imap is currently UWIMAP with mbox.. One of the problems commonly observed is mailbox lock loss, which happens when: a) a VIP has multiple secretaries accessing a single mailbox (actually, they are professional enough to have figured the realities of conflicting access and rarely have a problem), b) somebody leaving their machine on at home and coming in and firing up their work

Don't know if anyone else uses Berkeley derived filesystem quota, but IBM's AIX does. A little over a week after migrating from UWIMAP to DC (with mbox format unchanged) everything is clean except for this one problem: When users go over quota, when they login the next time, the folder list is blank. You can imagine the panicked calls to the Helpdesk. If their quotas are raised or

I am bringing more people onto Dovecot...and am beginning to see syslog error messages I've never seen before...what are they/are they critical? 1 =========================== > Jun 12 09:53:21 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(gregory): Corrupted index c > ache file /var/dcndx/gregory/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: indexid changed This has the same date stamp as the user's

Thanks in advance for your patience and assistance. Since a system administrator's work is most successful when nobody knows you've done anything....(ugly that...you get neither raises nor equipment funding as a result), I prefer to learn from other's experiences rather than fail in the same pits. We are considering a switch from UW to Dovecot, since our users persist in using

I would expect this means the end of UWIMAP....which probably leaves DC as open-source IMAP of choice. There were 66 people doing IMAP and Pine/Alpine development that were laid off at UWash due to funding cuts; Mark Crispin, one of the fathers of IMAP, was among those laid off. From the keyboard of: James Morris Lead Engineer, UW Technology University of Washington

I've been testing my user community's IMAP clients when I try to login and then transfer a big message from the inbox into a folder in an overquota folder directory. I am using native filesystem quotaing in AIXV5.3 with UWIMAP and comparing my results with what I see with Dovecot 1.0.0. (My Dovecot built without any plugins or quota extensions) Everything matches/works except for Mac

<permit me my perhaps foolish preference...an explanation> I run mail service for a small college. I've long joked that if someone stole the mail server, the phone would ring before the alarm (which has a 1 minute delay) did, that the user base expected 25x8x367 coverage. Making updates/upgrades to the mail server feels like a tightrope walk with no net. I always appreciated

Best Dovecot devs, We moved from UW-imap&pop3 to Dovecot this morning (~500 accounts) and reduced our traffic from the home directory server to the imap server bigtime: | 22 Nov| 0.1 0.8| 0.0 0.0| 0.4 0.5| 1550.6 42.9| 1557.3 67.9| | 23 Nov| 0.3 1.0| 0.0 0.1| 0.4 0.6| 1331.8 37.3| 1337.2 46.3| | 24 Nov| 0.0 0.4| 0.0 0.0|

Thunderbird (2.0) is all of a sudden checking mail server capabilities and keep posting a popup saying: "Mail Server imap.bard.edu is not an IMAP4 mail server". To the best of my knowledge, neither Tbird nor DC have been updated, though the DC imap host was rebooted today 3 hours ago. Any info on what this is about? DC is currently serving out of a special port and in evaluation

Hi, today I've finished migration from uw-imap daemons to shiny and fast dovecot. With thanks of dovecot my mail server load average drops by factor of ten even with ancient unix mailboxes. ;-) So, the only thing I've discovered is what POP3 uidls are different than ones used in the uw-imap. Luckily, the difference are only in the format string used in uidl response. So, I've

Hello, we are currently using sendmail, procmail, uwimap and qpopper. We are planing to replace uwimap and qpopper with dovecot. Which seems to be a very good idea :-) But: Sendmail and Procmail will not be replaced. Now I've realized that deliver rewrites existing "From <....> ..." header lines to ">From <...> ..." and adds it's own "From

I'm doing a complete upgrade of a server which I was using uw-imap for the imap/pop4 daemons.(This was an old RH 7.2 system and has been upgraded to CentOS 4.4 64bit) I notice there isn't an rpm at any of the repositories for this. I do pop before smpt for the remote users I have and also use procmail for calling spamc from SpamAssassin. Is there some place I can get uw's imap or

I've been lurking for a year or more and am now actually bringing Dovecot up (it seems that any time I make a serious effort at this, something else falls in the pot and I have to give it up yet again). Index questions: I understand the indices should be placed in a non-file-system-quoted place. I have in mind to create /var/dcndx 1) Roughly how much space do indices take up (so I can size

I've got several users testing Dovecot IMAP at the moment, but some of them are also accessing their mail via UW-IMAP at other times. (I've warned them about accessing the same folder simultaneously via UW-IMAP and Dovecot!) In addition, we have special folders "AutoSpam" and "Trash" that pruned using Washington's "mailutil" automatically every so

As is usually the case, I'm not sure enough of what the DC docs are referring to; there are some implicit info assumptions that I, the Newbie, miss... Anyway, here is my situation Dovecot is to run on one machine only, its index files are stored in on a separate, non-quotaed, not NFS filesystem. INBOX and folder filesystems (all mbox format) are native to this machine and are NFS