[Dovecot] a few questions about my experience with alpha1

[Glenn Leavell]

Hi all,

I've just switched from 0.99.10.6 to alpha1 on a Solaris 9 system,
and I have a few questions:

1)  I'm using "verbose_proctitle = yes" but I don't see the special
username or IP address information in the output of ps.  I've used:

	ps -fu dovecot
	ps -ef | grep dovecot
	/usr/ucb/ps aux | grep dovecot

The process table simply shows the /usr/local/sbin/dovecot, dovecot-auth,
and imap-login processes.  Is there something else that I need to do, or is
there a special way that I should use ps?

2)  After sending dovecot a HUP signal, the logs will report something
like:

	Warning: SIGHUP received - reloading configuration

And everything seems to work fine.  However, *sometimes* after sending
a HUP signal, logging will stop indefinitely.  Has anyone else noticed
anything similar?

3)  We use UW in production, and I'm new to any real use of namespaces.
Almost all of our clients use the root "~/Mail/" to find their folders (in
$HOME/Mail/) and their INBOXes are located in $HOME/.inbox.  A few people
actually find their folders with the direct path Mail/foldername.  So, I'm
trying to configure Dovecot to work with any of these roots / prefixes:

	~/Mail/
	Mail/
	"" (empty/blank)

I'm using the namespace configuration below, and it seems to work with any
of the above prefixes.  However, the logging that I see makes me wonder if
I'm doing it the best way.  Note the attached log file.  All of this output
was generated with this single IMAP command:

	A01 LOGIN bozo mypassword

Here's my configuration:

 ****************************************************************************
  # Default
  namespace private {
     separator = /
     prefix =
     location = mbox:%h/Mail/:INBOX=%h/.inbox:INDEX=%h/Mail/
     inbox = yes
     hidden = no
  }
  
  # This is the standard ~/Mail/ namespace that our clients tend to use
  namespace private {
     separator = /
     prefix = ~/Mail/
     location = mbox:%h/Mail/
     hidden = yes
  }
  
  # This namespace is for a few folks who might actually try to
  # directly access "Mail/foldername" -- as if they were accessing a real
  # filesystem path.
  namespace private {
     separator = /
     prefix = Mail/
     location = mbox:%h/Mail/
     hidden = yes
  }
 ****************************************************************************

So, is this the best way to configure the namespaces for what I'm trying to
accomplish?  And any pointers on how to interpret what Dovecot is working
through with regard to the attached logs would be appreciated.  Notice the
"Sending log messages too fast, throttling.." message (again, generated
from that single login command).  What might be causing that?

By the way, is there any real difference between the use of %h/Mail and the
possible use of ~/Mail in the location fields above?

Thanks very much!

-- 
Glenn Leavell <glenn at usg.edu>
Office of Information and Instructional Technology
Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia
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Aug 24 22:15:34 Info: Dovecot v1.0.alpha1 starting up
dovecot: Aug 24 22:15:52 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<bozo>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
dovecot: Aug 24 22:15:52 Info: IMAP(bozo): Effective uid=13054, gid=1
dovecot: Aug 24 22:15:52 Info: IMAP(bozo): Namespace: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, subscriptions=no
dovecot: Aug 24 22:15:52 Info: IMAP(bozo): mbox: data=/home/bozo/Mail/:INBOX=/home/bozo/.inbox:INDEX=/home/bozo/Mail/
dovecot: Aug 24 22:15:52 Info: IMAP(bozo): mbox: root=/home/bozo/Mail, index=/home/bozo/Mail/, inbox=/home/bozo/.inbox
dovecot: Aug 24 22:15:52 Info: IMAP(bozo): Namespace: type=private, prefix=~/Mail/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=yes, subscriptions=no
dovecot: Aug 24 22:15:52 Info: IMAP(bozo): mbox: data=/home/bozo/Mail/
dovecot: Aug 24 22:15:52 Info: IMAP(bozo): mbox: INBOX defaulted to /home/bozo/Mail/inbox
dovecot: Aug 24 22:15:52 Info: IMAP(bozo): mbox: root=/home/bozo/Mail, index=/home/bozo/Mail, inbox=/home/bozo/Mail/inbox
dovecot: Aug 24 22:15:52 Info: IMAP(bozo): Namespace: type=private, prefix=Mail/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=yes, subscriptions=no
dovecot: Aug 24 22:15:52 Info: IMAP(bozo): mbox: data=/home/bozo/Mail/
dovecot: Aug 24 22:15:52 Info: IMAP(bozo): mbox: INBOX defaulted to /home/bozo/Mail/inbox
dovecot: Aug 24 22:15:52 Error: IMAP(bozo): Sending log messages too fast, throttling..
dovecot: Aug 24 22:15:54 Info: IMAP(bozo): mbox: root=/home/bozo/Mail, index=/home/bozo/Mail, inbox=/home/bozo/Mail/inbox