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[Dovecot] Compressed maildir
by Curtis Maloney 17 Jun '05

17 Jun '05

Greetings, I noticed a while back someone posted a patch/plugin that allowed Dovecot to use compressed mbox files. I'm now wondering how far that would put us from having compressed maildir? I have a server with more CPU than disk space, and while I can buy more HDD space, my backup solution doesn't make that practical. It seems to me that when looking for a message file, if it ends in .gz unpack it, and otherwise everything acts as normal. Worst case, this is one strcat() and a stat() slower to find. Newly delivered messages could remain unpacked, and a cron job could come by whenever to compress old/large/un-looked-at-for-months messages. So, new and frequently referenced messages would be as fast as ever, and older messages would be slower. I would love to dive in an do this myself, but 1- my time is very very limited, working two jobs, and 2- I'm not running 1.0 yet, as it apparently still doesn't support my Thunderbird users tagging their messages (am I wrong? please tell me I'm wrong... I want to upgrade! :) -- Curtis Maloney cmaloney(a)cardgate.net

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[Dovecot] SSHA with LDAP?
by Ben Beuchler 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

Poking around in the code for dovecot-stable seems to indicate that support has been added for the {SSHA} password scheme. This is not reflected in dovecot-ldap.conf. Is the SSHA code actually functional? Thanks! -Ben

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[Dovecot] small dovecot problem
by Cor Bosman 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

Hi all, just noticed a small problem in test70. If you have an mail in your maildir 'new' directory, and use another method to delete that email (for instance pop it through another pop server), dovecot will continue to report that email as being on the server. So if you had 1 email, delete it through pop, dovecot will continue to say that 1 email is on the server, even if you disconnect/reconnect. If that same email is in the 'cur' dir (so its been read), this doesnt happen and dovecot will report 0 emails. Cor

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and openmailadmin ?
by albi＠scii.nl 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

hi, wondered whether some people tried dovecot and openmailadmin ? http://www.openmailadmin.org "openMailAdmin is a little administration interface to IMAP mailservers." "openMailAdmin works with most of the popular MTAs, such as Postfix or Sendmail, and with almost every complete IMAP-server, i.e. Cyrus or Courier" a google-search didn't show any useful results so far, i'm just curious whether some people already tried it with dovecot (of course i can try it myself, but quite busy currently)

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[Dovecot] customflags and keywords
by Curtis Maloney 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

OK. After checking the 0.99->1.0 migration documentation, it seems I've been a little confused between customflags and keywords. (Though this is partly due to my repeated requests for clarification being ignored.) The page (http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/UpgradingDovecot) says 1.0 does not use .customflags any more. Now, I'm hoping they're still supported, in which case I'm curious to know where those details ARE stored? If 1.0 does support custom flags in a usable way, I'll migrate next week (with Andrey's gzip patch applied :) -- Curtis Maloney cmaloney(a)cardgate.net

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Re: [Dovecot] strip realms and force lowercasing of usernames?
by Timo Sirainen 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 03:16 -0700, Dan Hollis wrote: > > PAM module only works for PAM passdb, Dovecot still does userdb lookup > > from /etc/passwd or wherever you have it. > > PAM should be given a chance to modify the username dovecot uses to do the > userdb lookup with. Hmm. I remembered PAM wouldn't allow that, but looks like it does. Changed CVS version to support that now (non-tested though, but doesn't at least break the normal behavior).

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[Dovecot] strip realms and force lowercasing of usernames?
by Dan Hollis 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

Is it possible for dovecot to strip realms and force lowercasing of usernames? We have a lot of dumb customers who try logging in to pop3 with crap like UsERNAmE and bla(a)nonexistentdomain.com. All our usernames are lowercase and we have no realms. Trying to get hundreds of customers to fix this is hard and is a significant and costly support burden. It would be nice if dovecot could handle this in some way. -Dan

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test73
by Timo Sirainen 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

http://dovecot.org/test/ Two potentially dangerous changes: - mbox parser should now be able to handle CR+LF linefeeds. Hopefully doesn't break anything. - Some mail header parser changes. Hopefully doesn't break anything. And other stuff: - COPY shouldn't crash anymore with 64bit systems - If PAM modifies username, keep it - When auth workers died they leaked file descriptors in dovecot-auth - Auth workers were leaking memory for each request - Make MySQL connect abort in 10 seconds if it can't connect - 32bit UID/GIDs were truncated to 31bit value - dovecot-auth reports cache hits and misses on SIGUSR2

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Re: [Dovecot] Re: master/config rewrite
by Timo Sirainen 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 19:27 +0900, Peter Evans wrote: > > > 32602 pts/19 S 0:00 dovecot/config > > > 32603 pts/19 S 0:00 dovecot/log > > > This is very lucid. Only argument I can see against is that solaris > > uses /nn to mark number of threads on a process (eg prstat). My vote > > will be on slashes before dashes any day. > > Or that solaris doesnt have setproctitle The above is done by modifying argv[0] before exec()ing. setproctitle() doesn't matter..

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[Dovecot] master/config rewrite
by Timo Sirainen 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

I've finally got it to work, kind of .. It should allow you to log in, but several settings don't work yet and there are probably many bugs. Anyway, I thought I'd show this already in case someone is interested of looking how it works :) One thing I'm still wondering a bit is if I should show process names as: 32602 pts/19 S 0:00 dovecot/config 32603 pts/19 S 0:00 dovecot/log 32604 ? Ss 0:00 dovecot 32606 ? S 0:00 dovecot/imap-login 32607 ? S 0:00 dovecot/auth -s 3 Or if I should name the binaries all as dovecot-config, dovecot-log, etc. One nice thing with the above is that it also shows imap and imap-login processes while grepping for dovecot. You can get the tarball from http://dovecot.org/tmp/dovecot-1.0-test67-mrewrite.tar.gz (it has all the test73 changes despite the name..) Example configuration file (with bare minimals) is at http://dovecot.org/tmp/dovecot.conf I think I'll create a separate dovecot-master.conf for those service-blocks in the above config file (after I add include-directive to config file parser code). After the code is working better, I'll commit it to CVS and it'll be in future -test releases.

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