February 2017 - dovecot

Doveadm option for a non-wildcard single-user with userdb
by Ivan Zahariev 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

Hello, Most "doveadm" commands accept "[-A|-u user|-F file]" for user selection, or the environment "USER". I'm testing with "doveadm quota recalc". The problem is that there is no way to ask "doveadm" to work in (1) single-user mode with (2) no wildcard support, and at the same time to (3) make a lookup in "userdb", in order to get the user's specific configuration. We have mailboxes which contain "?" and "*" symbols, and we can't work with them using "doveadm" now. * If we use "-A", this works with all users. Not our case at all. * If we use "-F" and provide just one user in the file, this works for a single user + lookup in "userdb", does not interpret wildcard, but "doveadm" works in a "users list" mode and the output is different. What's more problematic is that errors for an mbox do not end up in "doveadm" exiting with a non-zero exit code. * If we use "-u", this works for a single user + lookup in "userdb", but interprets wildcards. Does not work for mailboxes which contain "?" and "*". * If we use the USER environment, this works for a single users and does not interpret wildcards but does not do a lookup in "userdb". Should we add another user-selection argument, for example "-U", which (1) selects a single-user like "-u", does a "userdb" lookup like "-u" does, but does not interpret wildcards unlike "-u" ? Best regards. --Ivan

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Restoring a deleted imap folder from backup to user Maildir
by Kepa Lyman 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

Hi, A user accidentally delete a folder from their Maildir (probably while using Thunderbird). The folder was at Archives/Sent/2015 (/.Archives.Sent.2015 in the Maildir format). I attempted to copy the folder from a tar backup into the Maildir folder but the new folder does not show up in Thunderbird or in the Subscribe option. I also copied the .Archives.Sent. folder as well. A "Sent" folder shows up after this in Thunderbird's Subscribe menu but not the 2015 subfolder. Is there some other additional step(s) to undertake when moving Maildir folders around so they show up in Dovecot (or Thunderbird- though I did try deleting Thunderbird's local mail tmp folder). Re: this message about SELinux on CentOS, SELinux is set to permissive: https://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2009-January/036257.html Thanks! Kepa

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01 Feb '17

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