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[Dovecot] QUOTA Imap Extension
by Brady Wetherington 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

Hi - long time lurker, very rare poster I understand Dovecot's support for mbox quotas is - well, not quite there yet. But I actually am not asking about that. I use vpopmail and qmail and Maildirs and was wondering about the QUOTA imap extension, which allows IMAP clients to query their quota settings. The reason I need to know about this is that I have a mailserver with a chunk of clients and their mail stores are getting large. And starting to exhaust my storage. I could just throw more storage at it - but they're not paying me for that level of storage, so I need to quota them. And my main source of business is one particular consulting company, so I pretty much have to do what they say, within reason, and they said, "Okay, you can quota everyone, so long as they can at least find out what their quota is in Webmail..." Which is pretty reasonable - quota'ing people and then not letting them know how close to their quota they are seems cruel, especially with the meager IQ's of my particular set of clients. Some research on my part has determined that there's an RFC for a QUOTA extension to IMAP, and there are plugins for my webmail program (Squirrelmail) which can display the user's quota usage there. Also, some mail clients are smart enough to also query the QUOTA extensions and let the user know how close they are to their max quota usage. I'm also planning a pretty decent-sized technology transition in the near future (switching to a shared-storage system with two servers, etc, etc), and I could be convinced to perhaps try and change my quotaing system at the same time - for instance, switching to filesystem quotas instead of vpopmail quotas, if that will help. The scary possibility that I guess I have to prepare myself for is that dovecot Just Doesn't Do It, and I need to figure out some other way of informing the clients of their quota usage - possibly a script that goes and recurses through maildirs and sends little emails if users are at a certain percentage of their actual usage, or something...I'm certainly not looking forward to writing that, but it's not a fate worse than death...

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[Dovecot] were are my e-mails?
by Paul Matthews 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

hi there, i seam to have pretty much everything under control at the moment other than the ability to recieve email's ... i can send them though and i know they get there because i can login into webmin and look in my user's mail boxes and see the e-mails, but for some reason i can retrive them using squirrel mail, can someone tell me why?

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[Dovecot] pop3 CAPA STLS and stupid clients
by Marten Lehmann 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

Hello, is it possible to disable the announcment of STLS in the CAPA-command for the pop3-daemon? I want to support pop3s, but only at port 995, not through the STLS on port 110. The reason for this is that some clients have problems with this and strange errors appear (e.g. older imap-libs) although they don't seem to have a problem with pop3s through port 995. Regards Marten

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Re: [Dovecot] PAM Authentication issues with Dovecot
by david.kolts＠entouch.net 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

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[Dovecot] IMAP subscriptions - how, for what and why?
by Tom Alsberg 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

Again, not a Dovecot issua - but can someone clarify better what IMAP subscriptions (SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE/LSUB) are and what they are used for? I've seen a few times in Microsoft mail clients, the options to subscribe to folders and to "show only subscribed folders". I haven't played much with them, though. But what's the actual point? Except for being returned in the list of LSUB, what else changes when doing a SUBSCRIBE to a mailbox? Are subscriptions supposed to be remembered by the server outside of the context of a session (so a client that connects to the server at some point and authenticates will already see in LSUB what a possibly other client has subscribed to in a previous session)? Clarifications appreciated, regards, -- Tom -- Tom Alsberg - hacker (being the best description fitting this space) Web page: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~alsbergt/ DISCLAIMER: The above message does not even necessarily represent what my fingers have typed on the keyboard, save anything further.

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Re: [Dovecot] PAM Authentication issues with Dovecot
by david.kolts＠entouch.net 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

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[Dovecot] PAM Authentication issues with Dovecot
by david.kolts＠entouch.net 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

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[Dovecot] Outlook Express / Namespaces
by Matthias Rieber 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

Hi, I'm planning to switch from courier-imap to dovecot. Everythings seems fine. I adjust the namespaces to avoid client side changes. This works with Thunderbird, but Outlook Express seems to have problmes with the path "INBOX.", that I've configured in the client settings. I can remove that path, but the folders will be sorted under the inbox. Is there something that I've done wrong? I'm using dovecot 1.0alpha5 matthias

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[Dovecot] dovecot-lda: problems compiling
by nospam 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

I am trying to compile the dovecot lda and running into some problems. (compiling most recent version on Fedora core 4). I was able to compile the dovecot imap server just fine. However .. when I try to run configure in the lda package (after running autogen) it gets stuck on this line : + eval 'sed -f ./confstatm19105/subs-1.sed | sed -f ./confstatm19105/subs-2.sed | sed -f ./confstatm19105/subs-3.sed' ++ sed -f ./confstatm19105/subs-1.sed ++ sed -f ./confstatm19105/subs-2.sed ++ sed -f ./confstatm19105/subs-3.sed Basically it is getting stuck on the sed portion in config.status. Anyone run into this problem before ?

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[Dovecot] Authentication failure - unknown user
by Anne Wilson 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

I'm trying to set up a temporary mailserver using Debian Sarge and Dovecot 1.0 with maildir format. My only previous experience has been on a simple imap server with mbox format. I have read the wiki documentation and searched the archives, but can't tie down my problem. The log tells me Info: passwd-file(anne) : unknown user. I have set auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/imap.passwd auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/imap.passwd and created the /etc/imap.passwd file as anne:{plain}mypassword:1000:1000::/home/anne What have I missed? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/)

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