December 2013 - dovecot

[Dovecot] proxy, userdb and passdb
by Jogi Hofmüller 03 Dec '13

03 Dec '13

Dear all, We are getting closer to the migration of our mailsystem. Now I have a special question. We are successfully using passdb { driver = pam } and that is good. Now, how would I tell dovecot to proxy certain users (the ones not yet migrated) to the old server? My attempts to configure an additional userdb failed since this seems to override the passdb setting. Grateful for any hints! Cheers, -- j.hofmüller Optimism doesn't alter the laws of physics. - Subcommander T'Pol

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[Dovecot] Dove LDA vs Exim LDA
by Kumar Shantanu 02 Dec '13

02 Dec '13

Hello All, I have built up my email server with exim + dovecot + clamv/spamassasin. I am using exim as LDA(local delivery agent). I was reading about using dovecot as LDA but I couldn't find why should I use it? Now, I am looking expert advice on "Why should I use dovecot LDA" ? Is there any benefit in terms of functionality or performance ? Any advice/suggestion/feedbacks welcome. Thanks Shantanu

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[Dovecot] "[CANNOT] Mailbox GUIDs are not permanent without index files" when trying to delete folder
by Nissim Etrog 02 Dec '13

02 Dec '13

Hello, Dovecot 2.0.9 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.4 (Santiago) location is set to : mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=MEMORY Index is set to memory due to permissions problems when using disk index. Everything works, even rename folder, but when trying to delete folder, using any mail client, it fails with: "[CANNOT] Mailbox GUIDs are not permanent without index files". Why ? Regards,Nissim Etrog

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[Dovecot] doveadm table formatter: hidden titles may cause misaligned headers
by Julian Reich 02 Dec '13

02 Dec '13

Hello, I recently noticed a small bug in the doveadm table formatter: hidden titles may cause the headers to be misaligned. The behavior in question was introduced by commit <http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/rev/210282ae46e1> and doveadm -f table quota get -A may be used to reproduce it. Most simple patch attached: it simply restores the old behavior, to some extent. Actually hiding those titles may be desired. Regards, Julian Reich

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