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[Dovecot] Pros and cons of having folders under INBOX vs. not
by Rich Wales 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

I have some questions about whether I should set up folders under INBOX vs. having them outside the INBOX namespace. I'm setting up a new Dovecot 2.2.0 on an Ubuntu 12.04.2 server. My plan is to move my users (family members) to this new server from an old Cyrus server. Everybody is currently using (and will continue to use) IMAP, and either Thunderbird or SquirrelMail as their e-mail client. I'm using the maildir mailbox format on this new Dovecot server. No one is using the new Dovecot server yet, so I'm still free to do additional tweaking of the server configuration. When I used imapsync to copy everyone's mail to the new server, I found that all the folders (other than INBOX) were renamed. On the old Cyrus server, all the folders are subfolders of INBOX, but the folders on the new Dovecot server are not. (For example, a folder named "INBOX.Dovecot" on the old server was renamed to "Dovecot" on the new server by the imapsync utility.) Can I just keep things this way on the new server? Or are my users going to run into problems if folders are not all under INBOX? I do realize that IMAP servers can be set up either to put everything under INBOX, or not, but I'm not familiar with all the pros/cons. And if I do need (or want) to put all the folders under INBOX, can I simply rename the existing folders in each user's Maildir (and also edit folder names accordingly in everyone's "subscriptions" file)? Or will Dovecot be broken unless I recopy everything from scratch (with a command-line option to imapsync to put everything in the INBOX destination namespace)? Rich Wales richw(a)richw.org

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[Dovecot] auth: passwd file (info): unknown user
by Jim Knuth 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

Hello, the problem is: The users are system users (by Confixx) say webxpy. But behind it e-mail puts of course address like info(a)domain.de and so on. Everything functions perfectly, nevertheless, is following in the log. … … dovecot: auth: passwd file (jk): unknown user … dovecot: auth: passwd file (jim.knuth): unknown user … dovecot: auth: passwd file (info): unknown user … and so on It is tried obviously, before the domain part in the passwd file to find user info … However, there is in it only webxpy. How can I solve this dilemma, by which does this come then? auth_username_format = %n Thanks in advance as attached mine dovecot-n -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, with kind regards, Jim Knuth

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.2 & LEMONADE extensions
by Jan Phillip Greimann 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

Hi there, I read an article about dovecot 2.2, which includes the LEMONADE extensions, and was fascinated about the feature "Forward without download". We have a small internet-uplink in our office and our CEO loves to receive mails with large attachments, he also reply/forward it, so every time the full attachments get downloaded and uploaded again. Now the question is: Is LEMONADE supported by desktop-mailclients like thunderbird or just mobile Clients? (Google said nothing to this, maybe searched the wrong words) I hope someone can help me with this. Greetings, Jan

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[Dovecot] imap Panic: file index-attachment.c: line 231 (index_attachment_save_finish): assertion failed: (attach->input->eof)
by Pascal Volk 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

Hi Timo, some imap processes seems to have some problems. Regards, Pascal

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[Dovecot] Maildirs location migration
by Thomas Hummel 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

Hello Timo, I'm using dovecot-2.1.15 with Maildir mailboxes located on an NFS filer. Postfix is used to deliver mail through procmail ("mailbox_command) as LDA. Our team has bought another filer and everything is meant to go on it, so we're planning to migrate those mailboxes to the new filer. To test it only on a subset of users, I ended up to the following solution : 1. keep new messages in postfix mailqueue for those users (via a service and a transport) 2. prevent new dovecot authentication for those users (via the "auth-deny" passwd-file type passdb) 3. doveadm kick those users 4. copy or rsync the mailboxes 5. symlink maildir, control and indexes directories to the new filer (nfs mounted on the mail server) 6. re-enable mail delivery and imap authentication I was wondering if such a migration could be done differently in order to be seamless to the user : - for the postfix part, it would be easy, I guess, to create a new service (and a new transport map using this service) to deliver to the new location - but for the imap part, I'm not sure if it can be done. My guess is that, if feasible, it would involve some namespace settings and a dsync copy but I cannot figure out how exactly. What do you think ? Thanks -- Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur <hummel(a)pasteur.fr> | Groupe Exploitation et Infrastructure

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[Dovecot] dovecot-2.2 Warning: autocreate plugin is deprecated, use mailbox { auto } setting instead
by manu＠netbsd.org 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

Hi After upgrading to 2.2, I get this: Warning: autocreate plugin is deprecated, use mailbox { auto } setting instead I found no documentation on mailbox { auto }. Where should it go in the config file? -- Emmanuel Dreyfus http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz manu(a)netbsd.org

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[Dovecot] process_limit must be 1
by FABIO FERRARI 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

Hello, recently I have migrated a dovecot configuration from a Red Hat 5 to a CentOS 6. Since the versions of dovecot are quite the same (dovecot-2.0.1-1_118.el5 vs dovecot-2.0.9-5.el6.x86_64), I was thinking that copying the configurations file from one server to the other was a good thing, but instead, when I try to start the service, I have this bad error: Avvio di Dovecot Imap: doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf: service(anvil): process_limit must be 1 Does anyone know why I am getting this? Is there a change in configurations between the 2 versions, is it a known issue or I have to check something else? thanks in advance Fabio Ferrari

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[Dovecot] %{session} does not work with deliver_log_format
by Daniel Parthey 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

Hi, # 2.1.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-45-server x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS deliver_log_format = mailbox: deliver: session=<%{session}> msgid=%m from=%f: %$ produces log messages always containing "session=<session}>", like this one: Feb 24 09:22:09 10.129.3.233 dovecot: lmtp(3484, user(a)example.org) mbnWK6/NKVGcDQAAiWCYmA: sieve: mailbox: deliver: session=<session}> msgid=<20130224082208.8A807C0CF(a)mx01.example.org> from=postmaster(a)example.org: stored mail into mailbox 'INBOX/postmaster' http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Variables leads me to the assumption that %{session} works "everywhere" and for deliver_log_format too. Is deliver_log_format variable expansion handled differently from login_log_format_elements and mail_log_prefix? Regards Daniel -- https://plus.google.com/103021802792276734820

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot 2.1.16: Quota plugin compile fails: Solaris 10
by Joseph Tam 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

Stephen Usher writes: > quota-status.c: In function `main': > quota-status.c:200: error: `optarg' undeclared (first use in this function) > ... > It seems that the following C standard header files need to be included in > quota-status.c: > > #include <stdio.h> > #include <stdlib.h> > #include <unistd.h> It was mentioned a few weeks back (check the archives), but you only need one of them (which may include the others). My patch to cope with this --- a/src/plugins/quota/quota-status.c Sat Apr 13 02:18:40 2013 +++ b/src/plugins/quota/quota-status.c Sat Apr 13 02:18:56 2013 @@ -14,0 +14,1 @@ +#include <stdio.h> This worked for me. Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot 2.2.0 compile error
by Timo Sirainen 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

On 17.4.2013, at 1.27, Peter Wagner <rauchwolke(a)gmx.net> wrote: >>>> make[6]: Entering directory `/mnt/data/Develop/Openwrt/trunk_git/build_dir/target-mips_r2_uClibc-0.9.33.2/dovecot-2.2.0/src/util' >>>> /bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link mips-openwrt-linux-uclibc-gcc -std=gnu99 -Os -pipe -mips32r2 -mtune=mips32r2 -fno-caller-saves -mno-branch-likely -fhonour-copts -Wno-error=unused-but-set-variable -msoft-float -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -fno-builtin-strftime -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -I/mnt/data/Develop/Openwrt/trunk_git/staging_dir/target-mips_r2_uClibc-0.9.33.2/usr/include -no-undefined -Wl,--as-needed -L/mnt/data/Develop/Openwrt/trunk_git/staging_dir/target-mips_r2_uClibc-0.9.33.2/usr/lib -L/mnt/data/Develop/Openwrt/trunk_git/staging_dir/target-mips_r2_uClibc-0.9.33.2/lib -L/mnt/data/Develop/Openwrt/trunk_git/staging_dir/toolchain-mips_r2_gcc-4.6-linaro_uClibc-0.9.33.2/usr/lib -L/mnt/data/Develop/Openwrt/trunk_git/staging_dir/toolchain-mips_r2_gcc-4.6-linaro_uClibc-0.9.33.2/lib -o gdbhelper gdbhelper.o > the weired thing is, when i build it with --without-shared-libs > the program builds fine and works. How can i find out why this works > but using shard-libs doesn't? Probably specific to the mips/linaro/something tools that you're using. Have you tried that v2.1 still compiles? The best way to figure out why it works and v2.2 doesn't would be to find the specific commit from v2.2 that broke it. http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/BisectExtension could make finding that easier.

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