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Using dovecot to serve an email archive
by Ramón Casares 06 Apr '15

06 Apr '15

I have a collection of old email messages, archived as follows: 1) One file per message. 2) Messages (=files) distributed in a hierarchy of dirs under mailarch. 3) Each file (=message) uses the name <seconds>.R<sha1>.mail Here <seconds> is the date of the message, expressed as the number of seconds from 1-1-1970 00:00 in 10 digits, and <sha1> is the SHA-1 hash of the message contents, expressed in hexadecimal, [0-9a-f]. The advantages of this file naming scheme are: 1) All important metadata are in the file name. 2) You can verify the integrity of each message using only its own data and metadata. 3) Each file name is unique. 4) It is compatible with maildir (qmail) unique names (uniq). 5) If a dir is sorted alphabetically, then it is ordered chronologically. 6) The extension .mail can be used to call an appropriate message reader. >From time to time I add new messages and dirs to the archive, but some dirs are closed forever, so it would be nice to tar.gz'ip them. Now I am looking for an IMAP server that can serve this collection in a read-only (ro) manner. That is, the server should not write the mailarch dir at all. I am exploring two possibilities: 1) using hard links. 2) using FUSE to set a rw layer on top of the ro archive layer. But I am new to dovecot, so perhaps there is an easier way to achieve what I want, and therefore I would appreciate very much your advice.

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Sieve/ManageSieve documentation on Wiki2
by Robert Blayzor 06 Apr '15

06 Apr '15

Is it possible the Sieve/ManageSieve documentation on the Wiki can be cleaned up? It's incredibly confusing now. Some of the Sieve configuration information says certain options are deprecated, but then the example on how to configure it uses the deprecated options rather than what they *should* be now. More confusion is the sieve plugin configuration listing those same deprecated options, yet when you pull the document on how to configure ManageSieve, it (again) uses deprecated configuration information? http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/ManageSieve/Configuration Or am I missing something? -- Robert inoc.net!rblayzor http://inoc.net/

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IMAP logging / rawlog
by G H 06 Apr '15

06 Apr '15

I am trying to monitor with Nagios that my phones are consistently checking into dovecot via IMAP. I used to be able to parse syslog for imap-login messages. I have since updated my phones, the phoness email client (k9-mail) and dovecot. Now the imap-login messages are few and far between. However, I can clearly see via tcpdump that some traffic is happening when I click refresh on k9. I enabled "rawlog" support in dovecot, but it doesn't seem to write to disc frequently enough. 1) Does anyone have a better suggestion for how to monitor that my phone is checking in regularly? 2) Is there a flush-to-disk capability for rawlog in dovecot? 3) Also, when you have imap_zlib plugin enabled, the rawlog logs the raw compressed data instead of the decompressed IMAP commands. Is this an oversight? (FYI: k9 is calling SELECT "INBOX" on refresh) Thanks, G H

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Question About Dovadm syntax
by Kenneth Ulrich 06 Apr '15

06 Apr '15

Hello All, I just have a quick question about doveadm commands. 1. Is there a command that we can use to count emails for a particular end user? 2. If an end user needed to copy/move emails from one account to another, is there a command? Also, I've searched Google results, numerous Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora forums, Doveadm forums, and read the DoveCot/DoveADM man pages numerous times and either I am over looking, or I am not understanding. Thus why I am asking here.

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speaking of sieve scripts... how to selectively not send vacation autoreply
by Harondel J. Sibble 04 Apr '15

04 Apr '15

Don't need to block anyone like in the "Re: Dovecot Oy merger with Open-Xchange AG" thread, but when I have my vacation recipie active, I'd like it to NOT reply to certain addresses. I tried the following, you can see the section with if header :contains "addressIdontwant(a)repliedtoo.tld" is commented out, once I'd added that section, no Vacation messages went out at all. Googling and reading the wiki and recipie suggestions doesn't make it clear how to exempt a list of addresses from ever receiving a vacation response. Suggestions on additional reading or solutions? require ["fileinto", "vacation"]; if header :comparator "i;ascii-casemap" :contains "Subject" "**SPAM**" { fileinto "Trash"; stop; } #if header :contains "addressIdontwant(a)repliedtoo.tld" { # stop; #} vacation # Reply at most once a day to a same sender :days 1 :subject "Changes to email addresses effective Jan 01/15" # List of recipient addresses which are included in the auto replying. # If a mail's recipient is not on this list, no vacation reply is sent for it. :addresses ["user(a)repliedtoo.tld"] This is on a Dovecot 1.x system that is slated for an upgrade soon. -- Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Ltd. Creating Solutions for the small and medium business computer user. harondel(a)pdscc.com (use pgp keyid 0x3CC3CFCE not 0x3AD5C11D) http://www.pdscc.com Blog: http://www.pdscc.com/blog (604) 739-3709 (voice)

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Dovecot Oy merger with Open-Xchange AG
by Timo Sirainen 03 Apr '15

03 Apr '15

Hi all, Today I can finally announce that Dovecot Oy company has merged with Open-Xchange AG. This helps us to get more Dovecot developers, support people and so on. Most importantly, eventually it should allow me to get back to doing what I like the most: Designing new and interesting stuff for Dovecot and perfecting the old stuff :) OX is a great match to Dovecot going forward. They also really like open source and share our plans for the future. Nothing big will change as a result of this merger: Dovecot will stay Dovecot with its own name and release schedules. We're not going to force OX and Dovecot to be the same product, other than having a somewhat deeper integration between them. Here are the press release links about it: http://www.dovecot.fi/open-xchange-and-dovecot-announce-merger-to-create-wo… http://www.open-xchange.com/dovecot http://www.open-xchange.com/announcements/18

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EL6 EE package dependencies
by Will Yardley 03 Apr '15

03 Apr '15

I've been trying to upgrade Dovecot-ee package (on EL6/x86_64) from 2.2.15.8-1 to 2.2.16.2-1. It's complaining on these two dependencies: liblz4.so.1 libtextcat.so.0 These would both seem to be related to plugins, and don't seem to be required as package dependencies by the RPM from what I can see from the SRPM. Anyone know what packages I need to satisfy these dependencies?

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Install process breaks its self by design
by Merlin at Desktop Masters 02 Apr '15

02 Apr '15

Greetings, I just tried to install Dovecot for the first time. It was on a virgin Ubuntu/Debian server (Version: 1:2.2.9-1ubuntu5) and the install failed. After a bit of struggling I worked out that the install fails BY DESIGN. Spoke about this with a few people and we decided it was best to report this issue and request that you redesign the packing so it does not fail. The reason it fails is as follows... When you install it asks you if you want to use self signed certificates. I have certificates so I said, "No". At the end of the install the script tries to start dovecot. It cannot because the service does not have certificates so it fails. This causes the script to abort and the other packages not to install and breaks the install process. I had to purge dovecot, then install it with the self signed certificates. So we have 2 issues here. 1. Why allow people to not install certificates if it is just going to break the install and confuse them. 2. Why are you starting the service right after install when dovecot clearly requires manual configuration as part of the setup. I recommend you resolve this by NOT starting the service as part of the install unless it is an upgrade and the service was already running. ~ Merlin

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Re: Install process breaks its self by design
by Merlin at Desktop Masters 02 Apr '15

02 Apr '15

Correct Correct Correct And when I went to the page it lead me here. Whomever is making the .deb packages needs to be made aware of this. Can you please point me into a direction? ~ Merlin On 4/1/2015 4:33 PM, edgar(a)pettijohn-web.com wrote: > On 2015-03-29 13:58, Merlin at Desktop Masters wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> I just tried to install Dovecot for the first time. It was on a >> virgin Ubuntu/Debian server (Version: 1:2.2.9-1ubuntu5) and the >> install failed. After a bit of struggling I worked out that the >> install fails BY DESIGN. Spoke about this with a few people and we >> decided it was best to report this issue and request that you redesign >> the packing so it does not fail. The reason it fails is as follows... >> > > This would be on Debian/Ubuntu. > >> When you install it asks you if you want to use self signed >> certificates. I have certificates so I said, "No". At the end of the >> install the script tries to start dovecot. It cannot because the >> service does not have certificates so it fails. This causes the >> script to abort and the other packages not to install and breaks the >> install process. I had to purge dovecot, then install it with the >> self signed certificates. >> >> So we have 2 issues here. 1. Why allow people to not install >> certificates if it is just going to break the install and confuse >> them. > > This would be on Debian/Ubuntu. > > 2. Why are you starting the service right after install when >> dovecot clearly requires manual configuration as part of the setup. > > This would be on Debian/Ubuntu. > >> >> I recommend you resolve this by NOT starting the service as part of >> the install unless it is an upgrade and the service was already >> running. >> > > This would be on Debian/Ubuntu. > >> ~ Merlin >

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Mismatch search user in ldap
by Jean-François Sénéchal 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '15

Hi I do not understand the right configuration I had a loop worries the users received the same message multiple times and testing other users config was not found so what is the right config to the following scheme My ldap scheme : mail: jf(a)marche.be gosaMailForwardingAddress: jf(a)citoyen.marche.be gosaMailAlternateAddress: toto(a)marche.be dovecot-ldap.conf.ext user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%n)) virtual_mailbox_maps = proxy:ldap:/etc/postfix/ldap_virtual_recipients.cf virtual_alias_maps = proxy:ldap:/etc/postfix/ldap_virtual_recipients.cf ldap_virtual_recipients.cf : server_host = localhost search_base = ou=Users,ou=Citoyens,dc=marche,dc=be scope = sub bind = no version = 3 query_filter = (&(|(mail=%s)(gosaMailAlternateAddress=%s)(gosaMailForwardingAddress=%s)(uid=%s))(objectClass=gosaMailAccount)) result_attribute = uid is it correct ? thanks

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