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[Dovecot] mail shown throught outlook, shows todays date
by bclark 23 Mar '06

23 Mar '06

Hi all I seem to be sitting with an interesting situation where by I need to copy mail from Exchange to dovecot (Maildir) I used a mixture of solution (Moz Thunderbird, fetchmail and outlook) to copy and test the mail. The interesting thing is, once I have some mail on the dovecot, the date displayed on Mozilla is correct, but the mail shown throught outlook, shows todays date (thats for all mail). I logged in squirrel mail, that too correctly displays the date. Almost seems as Outlook (office 2000) looks at the date / time stamp of the file it self as opposed to opening and reading the mail and reading the necassry tags. If anyone could help me understand this (is this a dovecot issue), I would really appreciate it. Kind Regards Brent Clark

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[Dovecot] Tiny kqueue specific patch
by Václav Haisman 22 Mar '06

22 Mar '06

Hi, I have noticed from logs that (only handful of occurrences during whole week) sometimes there is some kind of unrecognized event on handle and the branch with i_panic() in ioloop-kqueue.c:io_loop_handler_run() catches it. This patch allows the i_panic() to print some more info about the nature of the unrecognized event so that I can find out what it is about. Since it is really rare event I ask anybody who sees Dovecot dying with "Unrecognized event" in logs to try this patch and report back with the output if it triggers again. The patch is against version 1.beta3. Vaclav Haisman --- ioloop-kqueue.c.orig Wed Mar 22 19:55:35 2006 +++ ioloop-kqueue.c Wed Mar 22 19:53:41 2006 @@ -204,7 +204,13 @@ void io_loop_handler_run(struct ioloop * (void *)io->callback); } } else - i_panic("Unrecognized event"); + i_panic("Unrecognized event: kevent {.ident = %u," + " .filter = 0x%04x," + " .flags = 0x%04x," + " .fflags = 0x%08x," + " .data = 0x%08x}", ctx->evbuf[i].ident, + ctx->evbuf[i].filter, ctx->evbuf[i].flags, + ctx->evbuf[i].fflags, ctx->evbuf[i].data); } }

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[Dovecot] One dovecot, multiple domains
by Ben 22 Mar '06

22 Mar '06

Hey guys, I've got dovecot configured to work perfectly for virtual users across different domains. It's great. My problem is that, as far as I can tell, dovecot makes me use one SSL certificate across all my domains. That's not what I want. Is there a way I can get dovecot to use the cert for mail.foo.com when somebody is logging into a foo.com account, and the cert for mail.bar.com when somebody is logging into a bar.com account? Am I missing something obvious, or asking the impoosible?

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[Dovecot] Using mbox INBOX with Maildirs?
by Mark Winslow 22 Mar '06

22 Mar '06

Thanks for everybody's tips on the mbox to maildirs converter. I was unaware that Maildirs was a common format not specific to dovecot, so I was searching using a dovecot keyword. I'm having this problem now with inboxes. I want to use maildirs, but my mail is delivered to an mbox. I can't seem to get dovecot to recognize the inbox location. Is something like: maildir:%h/Maildir:INBOX=/var/mail/%u impossible to use? What I'm trying to do is slowly merge people from mboxes to maildirs, so I have to use the passwd file per user maildirs settings with some sort of recognizeable inbox. I'm using sendmail as my mail server. Do I have to tell that to put the mail in the right inbox format? Thanks. __________________________________ Discover Yahoo! Find restaurants, movies, travel and more fun for the weekend. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/weekend.html

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[Dovecot] User data over Mysql
by Andrew Velikoredchanin 22 Mar '06

22 Mar '06

Hi, all! What I need set in dovecot config (dovecot-mysql.conf) for get home dir and mailbox file path from mysql DB? dovecot 0.99.11 Thanks.

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[Dovecot] procmail 1
by Joakim Verona 22 Mar '06

22 Mar '06

-- Joakim Verona www.verona.se

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RE: [Dovecot] Shared namespaces
by Mark Lidstone 22 Mar '06

22 Mar '06

Hi Curtis, Aye, I have read the wiki. I was pretty surprised this wasn't covered to be honest. Well, I've tried playing with the umask setting (thanks for the suggestion Channing) and changing the index locations (thanks Curtis), but no joy. I'm just about to start digging into the source to see if it's something I can sort out myself. Many thanks everyone, Mark Lidstone -----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org]On Behalf Of Curtis Maloney Sent: 19 March 2006 22:51 To: Mark Lidstone Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Shared namespaces Mark Lidstone wrote: > Hi all, > > I logged with Thunderbird as user 1 and everything seems to work fine. However, when I logged in as user 2 I was getting all kinds of errors. On checking the permissions of /home/public/Maildir/subscriptions it was user1:user1 with mode 600. Just a thought, but have you tried setting the INDEX location in the default_mail_env ? I'm not certain, but I believe the subscriptions file is included in the INDEX set, and by setting its location elsewhere, you would prevent it from being inside the Maildir. This would prevent ownership hijacking, AND let everyone have their own subscriptions. I'm not certain of this, so either someone else can fill in the details, or you could check the source (and please report your findings:) > To be perfectly honest, I'd ideally like to give people separate subscription settings anyway. I thought about symlinking the folders in, but that makes it a manual process to add new folders to everyone's maildirs. Of course, I'm assuming you've read the Wiki (it looks like you have...) -- Curtis Maloney cmaloney(a)cardgate.net CONFIDENTIAL The information contained in this e-mail and any attachment is confidential. It is intended only for the named addressee(s). If you are not the named addressee please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose, copy or distribute the contents to any other person other than the intended addressee(s). VIRUSES The contents of an attachment to this e-mail may contain software viruses which could damage your own computer system. While BMT Nigel Gee and Associates Ltd has taken every reasonable precaution to minimise this risk, we cannot accept liability for any damage which you sustain as a result of software viruses. You should carry out your own virus checks before opening the attachment.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0 beta3 and SUBSCRIBE
by Bertrand Leboeuf 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

Using: default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u I have a ~/mail/.subscriptions file (copied from .mailboxlist) Using: telnet localhost 143 a04 LSUB "" "*" => works fine, gives the list of subscribed folders a05 LIST "" * => works fine, gives the list of all folders a06 SUBSCRIBE "test" => deletes the ~/mail/.subscriptions file, it never gets recreated and LSUB gives an empty list after that. Any clues Bertrand Leboeuf

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[Dovecot] Startup script
by Tom Sommer 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

Hi, Anyone have a nice startup script for /etc/init.d for Fedora, maybe it could be bundled? Regards -- Tom Sommer http://tomsommer.dk

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[Dovecot] SquirrelMail 1.4.6 and Dovecot 1.0.beta3 Folders
by Bertrand Leboeuf 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

I migrated from UW IMAP, copied ~/.mailboxlist to ~/mail/.subscritions When I access SquirrelMail, is sees the folders on the left side. If I modifiy my folder subscription, they dissappear all but INBOX, and the .subscriptions file gets deleted. What am I missing. Thanks Bertrand Leboeuf

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[Dovecot] compilation and installation of dspam-plugin
by Stefan Schmidt 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

hello johannes, i just discovered your wonderful plugin for dovecot. it was pretty much exactly what i was looking for, only that i didn't know that yet :) "Instead of moving mail into special folders, the user has two actions available: moving it out of the SPAM folder and moving it into the SPAM folder. The dovecot plugin watches these actions [...] and tells dspam that it made an error and needs to re-classify the message, depending on the action the user took. The user can now move the message directly into whatever folder she choses, and it all works. [...]" i think this is the most usable and intuitive approach to dspam-training i have seen so far and would love to integrate dspam with this plugin into my current setup (postfix + maildrop + dovecot). i have installed dovecot via package from the debian stable section [1] therefore i am currently using version 0.99.14 in my setup. despite this difference in version i gave your betacode [2] a try together with the source of the corresponding dovecot-version [3], hoping it wouldn't crash and burn when used with my earlier version of dovecot. but i didn't get to the point where i could actually testdrive it. i tried compiling the plugin with the instructions contained in the file, but the compilation didn't suceed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- stefan@myserver:~/sources/dovecot-dspam-plugin/dovecot-1.0.beta3/plugin$ gcc -fPIC -shared -Wall -I../src/ -I../src/lib -I.. -I../src/lib-storage -I../src/lib-mail -I../src/lib-imap -I../src/imap/ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H spam_plugin.c -o spam_plugin.so In file included from ../src/imap/common.h:4, from spam_plugin.c:32: ../src/lib/lib.h:6:22: config.h: No such file or directory In file included from ../src/lib/lib.h:23, from ../src/imap/common.h:4, from spam_plugin.c:32: ../src/lib/compat.h:31:4: #error uoff_t size not set In file included from /usr/include/sys/socket.h:35, from ../src/lib/compat.h:80, from ../src/lib/lib.h:23, from ../src/imap/common.h:4, from spam_plugin.c:32: /usr/include/bits/socket.h:36: error: conflicting types for `socklen_t' ../src/lib/compat.h:51: error: previous declaration of `socklen_t' In file included from /usr/include/netinet/in.h:23, from ../src/lib/compat.h:81, from ../src/lib/lib.h:23, from ../src/imap/common.h:4, from spam_plugin.c:32: /usr/include/stdint.h:111: error: conflicting types for `uint_fast32_t' ../src/lib/compat.h:46: error: previous declaration of `uint_fast32_t' /usr/include/stdint.h:141: error: conflicting types for `uintmax_t' ../src/lib/compat.h:38: error: previous declaration of `uintmax_t' In file included from ../src/lib/lib.h:23, from ../src/imap/common.h:4, from spam_plugin.c:32: ../src/lib/compat.h:107: error: redefinition of `struct iovec' In file included from ../src/imap/commands.h:6, from ../src/imap/client.h:4, from ../src/imap/common.h:5, from spam_plugin.c:32: ../src/lib-storage/mail-storage.h:435: error: syntax error before "mail_get_virtual_size" ../src/lib-storage/mail-storage.h:435: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `mail_get_virtual_size' ../src/lib-storage/mail-storage.h:435: warning: data definition has no type or storage class ../src/lib-storage/mail-storage.h:438: error: syntax error before "mail_get_physical_size" ../src/lib-storage/mail-storage.h:438: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `mail_get_physical_size' ../src/lib-storage/mail-storage.h:438: warning: data definition has no type or storage class In file included from ../src/imap/commands.h:7, from ../src/imap/client.h:4, from ../src/imap/common.h:5, from spam_plugin.c:32: ../src/lib-imap/imap-parser.h:45: error: syntax error before "uoff_t" ../src/lib-imap/imap-parser.h:45: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union ../src/lib-imap/imap-parser.h:45: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union ../src/lib-imap/imap-parser.h:47: error: syntax error before '}' token ../src/lib-imap/imap-parser.h:47: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `_data' ../src/lib-imap/imap-parser.h:47: warning: data definition has no type or storage class ../src/lib-imap/imap-parser.h:48: error: syntax error before '}' token ../src/lib-imap/imap-parser.h:72: error: field `args' has incomplete type ../src/lib-imap/imap-parser.h:125: error: syntax error before "_imap_arg_literal_size_error" ../src/lib-imap/imap-parser.h:125: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `_imap_arg_literal_size_error' ../src/lib-imap/imap-parser.h:125: warning: data definition has no type or storage class ---------------------------------------------------------------------- just in case it matters: i currently have gcc 3.3.5 installed. greetings, stefan [1] http://packages.debian.org/stable/mail/dovecot-common [2] http://snipurl.com/nvol [3] http://www.dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.beta3.tar.gz

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[Dovecot] [patch] support tpop3d-style UIDLs
by Ben Winslow 20 Mar '06

20 Mar '06

Hello, I've attached a patch that adds an additional expando to pop3_uidl_format. The additional expando (%M) expands to the md5sum of the filename (which is already available via %f.) This UIDL style is compatible with tpop3d when using Maildir. The patch is against dovecot 1.0 beta3, and I'd love to see it be merged into the official tree. Comments welcome. -- Ben Winslow <rain(a)bluecherry.net>

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Re: [Dovecot] LDA Sieve debugging
by Luca Corti 20 Mar '06

20 Mar '06

On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 13:25 -0500, Duncan Hutty wrote: > try using "if header :contains" instead of address. I've tried that. Unfortunately it does not work. I've also removed the compiled version of the sieve script hoping that it was not recompiled after the changes. I noticed it is not recompiled even if permissions are correct on the file AND directory. I really do not understand what this could be. thanks -- Luca Corti PGP Key ID 1F38C091 BOFH excuse of the moment: nesting roaches shorted out the ether cable

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Re: [Dovecot] VERY cool add-on request.
by Johannes Berg 20 Mar '06

20 Mar '06

On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 09:25 -0500, David A. Lee wrote: > You refered to a specific one for dspam. > Would it be easy to generalize ? Yes, shouldn't be too hard. But the plugin also looks at headers etc. which would be very hard to capture in a config file. Well, not impossible, but cumbersome. I'm not sure what you're after but say you want to be able to define folder actions in a config file. Let me draw up a hypothetical config file example with the logic of the dspam plugin. The syntax is sort of borrowed from Exim :) ----begin folder action config---- copy into "SPAM" fail condition !${defined:header:X-DSpam-Signature} fail message "Message doesn't have dspam signature!" run "dspam --signature ${header:X-DSpam-Signature} --is-spam" copy outof "SPAM" ignore to "Trash" fail condition !${defined:header:X-DSpam-Signature} fail message "Message doesn't have dspam signature!" run "dspam --signature ${header:X-DSpam-Signature} --not-spam" ----end folder action config---- I'm sure others can come up with examples where the config file has to be even more elaborate... I can imagine having a 'pipe' action instead of 'run' that would give the command the message on stdin for example. johannes

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[Dovecot] VERY cool add-on request.
by Adam M. Dunn 20 Mar '06

20 Mar '06

I would like to have the ability to execute a command on a folder based on a user doing something like copying a message to that folder. This could be accomplished with a config file directive. For example, this would be EXTREMEMLY useful as a spam learning hook. Take a scenario where each user has their own spamassassin bayes database, and you want to give the users the ability to train their own database based on what they think is SPAM. It would be nice to give all the users a folder called Spam, and tell them to just copy/move mail into that folder, and spamassassin will automatically learn about it. If we had a configuration hook where you could execute on a copy/move, then I could tell Dovecot whenever a user puts a message into the Spam folder, execute 'sa-learn --spam --file %s' on that message. Sure we could just do an external script in a cron job to do it every hour or something, which I'll probably do in the mean time, but often users will just delete messsages after they copy into it. Doing it through IMAP means spamassassin will learn about it immediately. How cool would that be? It seems like an easy hook to implement. I would like to patch it myself for my own use, but I'm not very proficient in C. I saw someone on the net patched Courier to do the same thing so I know I'm not alone in wanting this. Anyone know how I could patch it? Can we add that to the feature request list? ~Adam

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[Dovecot] mbox to maildir conversion
by Brian Wilson 20 Mar '06

20 Mar '06

Timo writes: > BTW. Nowadays Dovecot includes its own conversion tool also, which might > work better than mb2md. Usage is something like: > > src/plugin/convert-tool user /home/user mbox:/home/user/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u maildir:/home/user/Maildir I would RTFM but searching wiki.dovecot.org turns up nothing. Give me more hints and I will add a new wiki page. The feedback the command gives is $ ./convert-tool Fatal: Usage: <username> <home dir> <source mail env> <dest mail env> Why does the tool want a home directory? What does it look for there? I know you say the syntax is the same for other tools but I don't know it for them yet either. :-) Guessing at the syntax for the source, it looks like the first thing is the format of the source (mbox:) followed by a directory containing mbox format files. The INBOX portion specifies the location of the mbox that the MDA puts incoming messages into. I can see the variables defined in doc/variables.txt, got that already. Is it intended to run both directions? That is, if I swap the last two args is will it convert maildirs into mboxes? This comment from Stian seemed pertinent as well. > But there is at least one "bug" with this; you should convert .'s in > mbox names to underscore or something, else it looks weird. Other than > that, it seems to work fine :) ..but I am unsure what 'looks weird' means. Can you give an example? Why is this tool under 'plugins' when it appears to be a separate utility? My guess is that it was easier to put there due to the build environment. Maybe it should install to a bin or sbin location? Thanks for all you do, Brian

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[Dovecot] auto move of purged mail to trash
by David Powers 17 Mar '06

17 Mar '06

I am moving a courier installation over to Dovecot and I am wondering if there is a way to set Dovecot to automatically move purged items to trash (under IMAP). Additionally, is there a way to automatically delete old items from a Trash folder? -David

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Re: [Dovecot] Converting huge mbox to Dovecot mbox + indexes
by Bertrand Leboeuf 17 Mar '06

17 Mar '06

My mistake, good point. I thought that creating the indexes would take a long time, but after a couple of tests, I found that Dovecot is so fast that it beats UW IMAP even while creating the indexes and after that, it is just fast. Thanks Bertrand >From: "David A. Lee" <dlee(a)calldei.com> > >I'm curious why this is an issue ? Wont dovecot make the indexes on first >use of the mbox if it finds no indexes ? > > > >> >From: Johannes Berg <johannes(a)sipsolutions.net> >>> >>>On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 15:30 -0500, Bertrand Leboeuf wrote: >>> >>>> I have ~500 users, some with HUGE mbox (500MB-1GB), >>>> is there a script to create the Dovecot indexes at night >>>> to help speed up the migration process. >>> >>>If you use the dovecot converter then indexes will be built during the >>>conversion. >>> >>>johannes >> >> Good, can I use convert-tool to do: mbox -> mbox + indexes >> >> I have not tested the maildir configs yet and I will >> have to deal with the number of files and their placement. >> >> Bertrand >> >>

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Re: [Dovecot] Converting huge mbox to Dovecot mbox + indexes
by Bertrand Leboeuf 17 Mar '06

17 Mar '06

>From: Johannes Berg <johannes(a)sipsolutions.net> > >On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 15:30 -0500, Bertrand Leboeuf wrote: > >> I have ~500 users, some with HUGE mbox (500MB-1GB), >> is there a script to create the Dovecot indexes at night >> to help speed up the migration process. > >If you use the dovecot converter then indexes will be built during the >conversion. > >johannes Good, can I use convert-tool to do: mbox -> mbox + indexes I have not tested the maildir configs yet and I will have to deal with the number of files and their placement. Bertrand

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[Dovecot] mbox to maildir: what about INBOX
by Bertrand Leboeuf 17 Mar '06

17 Mar '06

I migrated from UW IMAP/Qpopper to Dovecot using: # indexes on /var/indexes is faster: local, not NFS mouted default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u # Qpopper pop3_reuse_xuidl = yes The new mail is sent to in /var/mail/%u in mbox format How can I migrate some users to maildir and have them receive their emails either in POP3 or IMAP. (lots of big files to convert) How does new email get spooled in the right INBOX (POP3/IMAP) ? Thanks. Bertrand Leboeuf leboeuf(a)emt.inrs.ca

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[Dovecot] LDA Sieve debugging
by Luca Corti 17 Mar '06

17 Mar '06

Hello all, I've installed and setup the LDA with postfix. I'm trying out Sieve support, and wrote the following global script: require "fileinto"; if address :contains "To" "luca(a)mydomain.tld" { fileinto "Spam"; } and tried to send an email to that address. The sieve script seems to be processed and sieve-global.scriptc is compiled, but the message is not filed in the correct folder. Is there a way to debug the script execution? thanks -- Luca Corti PGP Key ID 1F38C091 BOFH excuse of the moment: Internet exceeded Luser level, please wait until a luser logs off before attempting to log back on.

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[Dovecot] PAM authentification problem
by Vladislav Kyjasko 17 Mar '06

17 Mar '06

Hi everybody, we try to migrate our IMAP service from uw-imap to dovecot because of horrible server slowdown when a lot of people poking in theirs huge imap folders. So, I try to run testing instance of dovecot on different imap port (12143) I have trouble with authentication by PAM module of MIT Kerberos. It successfuly works for authentificate users of wu-imap but not for dovecot. I see in dovecot.log messages like that : Info: Dovecot v1.0.beta3 starting up Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP lip=10.0.0.154 rip=10.0.0.148 Info: auth(default): client out: CONT 1 Info: auth(default): client in: CONT 1 AGtDNLamUjvADNLamUjQRsbw== Error: auth(default): pam(kyyashko,10.0.0.148): Child process died Info: auth(default): shadow(kyyashko,10.0.0.148): invalid password field Error: auth(default): PAM: Child 6748 died with signal 11 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 user=kyyashko temp Almost all users are in kerberos DB and has in local shadow field "*KRB*" instead of encrypted password. So, line "shadow ... invalid password field" is OK (when I made a local password in shadow the login was success) My dovecot.conf looks like: sl_disable = yes protocol imap { listen = *:12143 } auth_default_realm = FZU.CZ auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb pam { } userdb passwd { } user = root } original /etc/pam.d/dovecot I introdused by lines auth sufficient pam_krb5.so auth required pam_unix2.so use_first_pass nullok or tryed to substitute whole file pam.d/dovecot by actualy working one of imap: #%PAM-1.0 auth sufficient pam_krb5.so auth required pam_unix2.so use_first_pass nullok auth required pam_unix2.so account required pam_unix2.so but similary fruitless. Which direction I have to dig? P.S. Dovecot was built from dovecot-1.0.beta3-6.src.rpm on SuSE 9.0 with the same result like from dovecot-1.0.beta3.tar.bz2 :(

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[Dovecot] Converting huge mbox to Dovecot mbox + indexes
by Bertrand Leboeuf 17 Mar '06

17 Mar '06

Migrating from UW IMAP/Qpopper mbox to Dovecot mbox. I have ~500 users, some with HUGE mbox (500MB-1GB), is there a script to create the Dovecot indexes at night to help speed up the migration process. Any idea. Thanks Bertrand Leboeuf leboeuf(a)emt.inrs.ca

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[Dovecot] Install/configure on FC4 with maildir and mysql
by Netlink Tech 17 Mar '06

17 Mar '06

Hello, I have a FC4 x64 server that I am configuring/testing. It had dovecot 0.99 loaded after I did a yum update. That worked great with mbox, the passwd file, and test users in /home/users/username. I would like to be able to authenticate virtual users by 'username(a)domain.com' and have them be able to use squirrelmail or Outlook/Outlook Express to access their email. Users have no reason to have a login (shell) account on this machine. I also would like to use the maildir format for performance. I also have hundreds of users currently on a RH9 mail server using qpopper in mbox format, hashed mail spool. Questions: 1)Is a mysql database the best way to support "user(a)domain.com" email users? (they don't have any reason for a shell account on this machine) 2)What version of dovecot should I be using? I prefer RPMs and at http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-February/011467.html I found http://fedora.ivazquez.net/yum/4/x86_64/RPMS.alternatives/dovecot-1.0-0.iva… I installed this and then configured procmail for maildir delivery. I configured dovecot-sql.conf for mysql driver...but the mysql driver does not appear to be compiled in this rpm. 3)Anyone have any general tips on how to configure such a beast? Thanks, Curt

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Re: [Dovecot] what are those .nfsXXXXX files with mbox ?
by Bertrand Leboeuf 16 Mar '06

16 Mar '06

Thanks, Dovecot seems to create a lot because of the indexes, but they dissapear with the cron. -Bert >From: Jeff Ballard <ballard(a)engr.wisc.edu> > > >There should be a cron job on the server that deletes those > >>From /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root: > >15 3 * * 0 /usr/lib/fs/nfs/nfsfind > >Looking at /usr/lib/fs/nfs/nfsfind: ># less /usr/lib/fs/nfs/nfsfind >#!/bin/sh ># Copyright (c) 1993 by Sun Microsystems, Inc. > >#ident "@(#)nfsfind.sh 1.7 00/07/17 SMI" ># ># Check shared NFS filesystems for .nfs* files that ># are more than a week old. ># ># These files are created by NFS clients when an open file ># is removed. To preserve some semblance of Unix semantics ># the client renames the file to a unique name so that the ># file appears to have been removed from the directory, but ># is still usable by the process that has the file open. >[snip] > >-Jeff > >-- >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- >Jeff Ballard <ballard(a)engr.wisc.edu> 608-265-5090 >Unix Systems Manager, Computer-Aided Engineering Center >

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