April 2021 - dovecot - dovecot.org

.IMAP locations
by Elise 03 Apr '21

03 Apr '21

I have this account, /usr/home/me To be able to admin websites, I created a folder /usr/home/me/www , containing my siteroot /usr/home/me/www/mysite.com My dovecot.config: mail_location = mbox:/home/%u:INBOX=/var/mail/%u the actual mailfolder is /usr/home/me/mail , which I defined in my mailclient as 'mail/' The issue now is that Dovecot is indexing my whole /usr/home/me/ folder, including the www folder, in which it also idexes every folder that is in /usr/home/me/www/mysite.com . It puts in these folders an .imap folder that is containing the exact content of the folder it is put in. So my site takes double space by this Dovecot indexing. To solve this issue, I defined my mail_location line as mail_location = mbox:/home/%u/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u and removed the 'mail/' directive from my mail client. For some reason this does not prevent Dovecot to index the subfolders of /usr/home/me/www/ - Do I have to remove all Dovecot related indexing files by hand to solve this and restart Dovecot service afterwards? - Can you tell me how I can define the Dovecot index files location so that there will be no .imap folder created anymore in my /usr/home/me/www/ subfolder(s)? Thanks for you help! Elise #CSSis {beautiful};

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Seeking Advice for data recovery
by Riccardo Bicelli 03 Apr '21

03 Apr '21

Hello, we had a drive failure and needed to restore our dovecot server to operational status in no time. So we restored an "old" snapshot backup and worked on the failed drive in order to recover the mails. Data backup didn't worked :-( Now the storage is updated with mails from beginning of time to snapshot, and from recovery day to now, and a copy of the storage of mails from beginning of time to failure. Is there a way to "inject" the mails from "snapshot to failure"? Which is the best way? We're using mdbox. Thanks, Riccardo

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Emails Ending up in Junk
by Asai 03 Apr '21

03 Apr '21

Greetings, I'm trying to debug an issue with a user who is finding emails (user uses Thunderbird as client) ending up in Junk folder, and constantly marks email as Not Junk, but important email ends up in Junk folder. I have sieve set up, but am unable to determine if this is the result of a sieve problem (sieve will automatically move certain emails into Junk if certain headers are present, but these headers are not present on these emails.) I'm looking in Dovecot debug logs to try to figure this out, but all I can find is sometimes this, and I don't know if this is relevant. Can anyone point us in the right direction for solving this issue? Apr 01 11:51:05 imap(user(a)domain.tld)<102535><+kTsYd6+f83AqEbH>: Debug: Mailbox Junk: Mailbox opened because: UID move Apr 01 11:57:08 imap(user(a)domain.tld)<102735><P3dSa96+kM3AqEbH>: Debug: Mailbox Junk: UID 565: Opened mail because: prefetch Apr 01 11:57:08 imap(user(a)domain.tld)<102735><P3dSa96+kM3AqEbH>: Debug: Mailbox Junk: UID 565: Opened mail because: access Apr 01 11:57:08 imap(user(a)domain.tld)<102735><P3dSa96+kM3AqEbH>: Debug: Mailbox Junk: UID 565: Opened mail because: full mail Apr 01 12:00:20 imap(user(a)domain.tld)<71333><OX7P1+2+BfcKCgFy>: Debug: Mailbox Junk: Mailbox opened because: STATUS Apr 01 18:52:10 imap(user(a)domain.tld)<114066><WLt3mPO+z8QKCgFy>: Debug: Mailbox Junk: Mailbox opened because: SELECT

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Virtual folders and mailbox_list_get_root_forced
by Joan Moreau 02 Apr '21

02 Apr '21

Hi The function mailbox_list_get_root_forced returns sometimes the first or the second value of the INDEX param for the same mailbox. How to make sure this returns only the correct one of the corresponding mailbox ? mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n:LAYOUT=fs:INDEX=/var/mailindex namespace { location = virtual:/nix/store/toto-virtual:INDEX=/var/vmail/%d/%n/virtual prefix = virtual/ separator = / subscriptions = no } Thank you

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Re: Re: nginx configuration to pass x-originating-ip
by Henry 01 Apr '21

01 Apr '21

Hello, Does anyone has a solution about it? Thanks

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