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[Dovecot] Why the name dovecot?
by Sven Kirmess 22 May '04

22 May '04

Why is docecot called dovecot? Actually, nobody likes these "rats with wings". ;-) Timo, can we know that or is it a secret? Sven

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[Dovecot] mbox folders
by Villalovos, John L 22 May '04

22 May '04

I just upgraded to Fedora Core 2 from Fedora Core 1. Discovered that UW-IMAP was replaced with Cyrus. Not quite ready to switch to that mail box format so I instead installed dovecot which comes with Fedora Core 2. The RPM version is: dovecot-0.99.10.4-4 The problem I am having is that it seems to want to put folders in: ~/mail/mail/ I would like the folders to be in: ~/mail/ Currently in ~/mail/ there is a .subscriptions file. Am I stuck with having my folders be in ~/mail/mail/ ? Is there some configuration change that I can do? Thanks, John -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

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RE: [Dovecot] Dovecot Questions
by Julian Melville 21 May '04

21 May '04

> I suppose I should have mentioned that this is Debian sid, so Dovecot > 0.99.10.4 and SquirrelMail version 1.5.0. Not using pgsql or ldap. What happens if you telnet to e.g. port 143 when this is happening? Do you get a response from dovecot? I ask because I was experiencing the same symptom on a Debian (testing) machine a couple of months back. I had some assistance from Jaldhar but didn't get much closer to the answer. Eventually I put it down to low memory problems (it was a virtual-mode Linux server and had memory probs with other apps) and shifted to a real server with plenty of RAM. That's now also running Debian sid, dovecot and Squirrelmail without any problems. Cheers, Julian.

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RE: [Dovecot] mbox folders
by Villalovos, John L 19 May '04

19 May '04

dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org wrote: > No, he means in your dovecot.conf file Oh. Oops :) Initially I had nothing. And then went with the following: #default_mail_env = default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u John -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

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RE: [Dovecot] mbox folders
by Villalovos, John L 19 May '04

19 May '04

dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org wrote: > * Villalovos, John L <john.l.villalovos(a)intel.com> (20040518 13:46): >> The problem I am having is that it seems to want to put folders in: >> >> ~/mail/mail/ > > How is your `default_mail_env' variable configured? I have: [john@webhost john]$ set | grep -i mail MAIL=/var/spool/mail/john MAILCHECK=60 [john@webhost john]$ John -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

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[Dovecot] having hell of the time converting away from UW
by Eric S. Johansson 18 May '04

18 May '04

I just want to check and make sure not missing anything. I'm trying to convert a customer away from UW. unfortunately, all of the mailboxes are in MBX format (my own mistake coming back to haunt me). mailutil doesn't seem to do conversions properly. It keeps complaining about an existing copy of /mbox and only if I say to -merge append will the copy proceed. mailsync doesn't work well with hierarchies of mailboxes. its copies the top level mailboxes but proceeds to get sick on the sub mailboxes. I'm not sure what other tools there are to help me get out from the mbx rathole and over to the maildir wallow. any suggestions?

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[Dovecot] dovecot (mutt?) tells me I have new email (when I don't)
by Charlie Allom 18 May '04

18 May '04

Hi, does anyone else, whilst using mutt, have the problem where you read your new email - then change to another mailbox, *then* mutt tells you that you have new email in the mailbox you just read!? It seems to only happen when I: a) receive email in, say, =mi b) change to, and read email in =mi c) hit 'c' to change to next-unread mailbox d) mutt says "New mail in imap://yeled@localhost/" e) I 'c' back there to =mi and there is no New email - but there are some Old 'unread' emails (ie "O" status in mutt) I've attached the IMAP logs. Of special note is the RECENT after the thread 'a1192' in the file 203.018.243.123.00143-203.031.232.002.57 a1192 OK Status completed. * STATUS "mi" (RECENT 1) a1193 OK Status completed. I believe it's telling mutt that there is a new email in "mi" after I've just read it! a1184 OK Status completed. * 890 FETCH (UID 901 BODY[] {3661} ^^this is the email I just read, and is now "New" again. Subject: test2 Is this a mutt or dovecot bug/feature? Regards, C. -- charlie(a)rubberduck.com - Melbourne, Australia http://rubberduck.com/~yeled/ PGP: 0x14AA7941 || finger yeled(a)lazy.spodder.com

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[Dovecot] maildirsize
by Brian Candler 17 May '04

17 May '04

Hello, Are there plans to implement Maildir++ quotas (maildirsize) in dovecot in the near future? Also - how do things work if you have multiple dovecot frontends accessing an NFS mailstore? If you keep the index files on local disk, and clients connect alternately to different machines, are the stale indexes noticed and corrected? Thanks, Brian.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot vs. Courier-Imap
by Marten Lehmann 17 May '04

17 May '04

Hello, I've heard of both and I already tested and installed both, but I'm not sure which one is better, since both just seem to work and I can't see a difference, except from the point how it's set up and configured. Where are the drawbacks of each one, where are the benefits? I also tested cyrus before, but cyrus is not working well with maildirs. I'm not that into detail of both projects, maybe you can explain a bit. Thanks in advance for every answer! Regards Marten

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test9 released
by Timo Sirainen 17 May '04

17 May '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ - SORT command always replied with NO - Locking fixes. Fixes several crashes, dotlock errors and deadlock errors - When multiple sessions were concurrently modifying mailbox it often mixed up the messages that were supposed to be modified. When expunging it also gave errors such as: Corrupted transaction log file /home/user/Maildir/.INBOX/dovecot.index.log: Expunge range 5..5: UIDs 6..6 doesn't match real UIDs 18..18 Now it doesn't do it as often, but it still does.. I'm not really sure where the bug is. Have to keep looking. This seems much more stable than test8, but because of the above problem I still don't recommend it for more than testing.

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