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[Dovecot] Limiting the size of index files
by Edgar Fuß 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

Is there a way to limit the amount of disc space dovecot will use for its index cache? Other than putting that on a separate partition, I mean. We host our mail data on the file server, however, the index files are located on local discs on each of the mail servers and seem to grow without bounds. We're above 250M now and soon /var will run out of space. Thanks for any help.

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[Dovecot] dovecot mysql support
by jan gestre 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

Hi Guys, I'm using CentOS 4.5, is the dovecot default rpm comes with mysql support? Do I need to rebuild it? TIA. jan

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[Dovecot] Problem Running Dovecot 1.0.5
by dave 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

Hello, When trying to run dovecot I am getting the following error :- Error: Error in configuration file /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf line 923: Unknown section type (section changed at line 923) Fatal: Invalid configuration in /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf The following section is at line 923. userdb static { args = uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/var/spool/vmail/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes } It seems to be that dovecot does'nt understand the section, but I configured with support for static userdb and this was confirmed before compilation took place. OS is Solaris 9. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks, David.

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[Dovecot] Problems executing dovecot.
by Marcelo Iturbe 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

Hello, I am running OS: Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS dovecot # 1.0.7 Beta Problem: I have all the email delivery set up with maildir. I currently have an account which has 297,261 emails in the Inbox. Here is a transcript of a telnet session with the server: * OK Dovecot ready. 110 login somelameuser lameuserspass 110 OK Logged in. 111 select inbox * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. * 297261 EXISTS * 149522 RECENT * OK [UNSEEN 1] First unseen. * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1188426666] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 301157] Predicted next UID 111 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. 112 copy 1:100 toBeProcessed Connection to host lost. I keep getting dropped... My original idea was to move the files via command prompt, but I wasn't sure if that was allowed, thought I might mess up the UIDs. How could I move the emails into other directories (folders) so that a regular IMAP conector can process the emails? Thanks for your help Marcelo -- Marcelo Iturbe ■ CIO ■ Tigabytes Chile ■ Google Enterprise Partner T: 562 264 1044 ■ www.tigabytes.com

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[Dovecot] Received Dates/Squirrelmail
by Jeff Grossman 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

I am trying to figure out an issue I have with the e-mails in my inbox showing up in Squirrelmail. I sometimes get (more often than I care for it to happen) e-mails which show up as new either many hours ago or days ago. I have one particular e-mail that in Squirrelmail is showing a data of Tue, 8:23PM. The received header of that e-mail shows: Received: from murphy.debian.org (murphy.debian.org [70.103.162.31]) by apple.stikman.com (8.14.1/8.14.1/Debian-9) with ESMTP id lA1JGTli011052 for <x>; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 12:16:35 -0700 And the date header of that e-mail shows: Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:23:11 -0400 I have tried changing the Squirrelmail setting under Display Settings which says Use Received Date. Both options, yes and no makes the mail display the same way in Squirrelmail. Is this a problem with the way Dovecot is sending the information to Squirrelmail, or is this a problem with the way Squirrelmail is interpreting the data from Dovecot? Dovecot version is 1.1beta5 Squirrelmail is version 1.4.11 Thanks for any help you can offer me. Jeff

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[Dovecot] Throttle New Connections?
by Joe Allesi -X (joallesi - Coyote Creek Consulting at Cisco) 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

All, Is anyone using iptables (recent module), or any other alternatives, to throttle the number of new imap or pop connections per minute? We have some applications that like to login every second to pull mail using imap, so we'd like to protect the entire dovecot server from these applications. We've already made the change over to high-perf mode, but we still need some type of denial of service protection. Any real-world data would be appreciated. Thanks!

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[Dovecot] Just getting started
by Randall Donaldson 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

This is my first attempt at creating a mail server. I'm running postfix and dovecot on Fedora 7. So far the process has been very enlightening. I currently have the server able to send and receive messages for a domain from the server machine itself. In addition, I can SMTP from any client set up on the LAN by logging in. However, I cannot retrieve messages from remote clients on the LAN. Thunderbird reads "Connected to" {servername} across the bottom, then times out. I tried to telnet to port 110 on the server, and I no response, just hangs. Not sure where the problem lies. Thanks for any assistance. here's the output of dovecot -n: # 1.0.7: /etc/dovecot.conf login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd Randall Donaldson Information Technology Stolze Printing

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[Dovecot] virtual user login
by Paul A 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Hi, I have server with multiple virtual domains and this server also accepts mail for the local domain. I'm using postfix and have the following setup for a virtual sales(a)domain.com mapped to custsales@localhost I was wondering if there is a way to login with the virtual email address, for example sales(a)domain.com? I would also like to still be able to login with the local user as well. TIA, P

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[Dovecot] IMAP Proxy and Namespaces
by it-dovecot＠ml.epigenomics.com 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Hi! Is it possible to combine these two features of dovecot, i.e. to have a specific namespace that proxies to another IMAP server? Greetings -- Robert Sander

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[Dovecot] How to write plugin
by Eugene Prokopiev 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Hi, Where can I find documentation for plugin writers? Now I see mail-log-plugin source, but I can't understand how entry points (functions mail-log-plugin-init and mail-log-plugin-deinit) are defined to execute some actions on load/unload/copy messages. Can anybody comments this?

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