[Dovecot] a few questions about my experience with alpha1

Hi all,

I've just switched from 0.99.10.6 to alpha1 on a Solaris 9 system, and I have a few questions:

1. I'm using "verbose_proctitle = yes" but I don't see the special username or IP address information in the output of ps. I've used:

   ps -fu dovecot ps -ef | grep dovecot /usr/ucb/ps aux | grep dovecot

The process table simply shows the /usr/local/sbin/dovecot, dovecot-auth, and imap-login processes. Is there something else that I need to do, or is there a special way that I should use ps?

2. After sending dovecot a HUP signal, the logs will report something like:

   Warning: SIGHUP received - reloading configuration

And everything seems to work fine. However, *sometimes* after sending a HUP signal, logging will stop indefinitely. Has anyone else noticed anything similar?

3. We use UW in production, and I'm new to any real use of namespaces. Almost all of our clients use the root "~/Mail/" to find their folders (in $HOME/Mail/) and their INBOXes are located in $HOME/.inbox. A few people actually find their folders with the direct path Mail/foldername. So, I'm trying to configure Dovecot to work with any of these roots / prefixes:

   ~/Mail/ Mail/ "" (empty/blank)

I'm using the namespace configuration below, and it seems to work with any of the above prefixes. However, the logging that I see makes me wonder if I'm doing it the best way. Note the attached log file. All of this output was generated with this single IMAP command:

A01 LOGIN bozo mypassword

Here's my configuration:

# Default namespace private { separator = / prefix = location = mbox:%h/Mail/:INBOX=%h/.inbox:INDEX=%h/Mail/ inbox = yes hidden = no }

# This is the standard ~/Mail/ namespace that our clients tend to use namespace private { separator = / prefix = ~/Mail/ location = mbox:%h/Mail/ hidden = yes }

# This namespace is for a few folks who might actually try to # directly access "Mail/foldername" -- as if they were accessing a real # filesystem path. namespace private { separator = / prefix = Mail/ location = mbox:%h/Mail/ hidden = yes }

So, is this the best way to configure the namespaces for what I'm trying to accomplish? And any pointers on how to interpret what Dovecot is working through with regard to the attached logs would be appreciated. Notice the "Sending log messages too fast, throttling.." message (again, generated from that single login command). What might be causing that?

By the way, is there any real difference between the use of %h/Mail and the possible use of ~/Mail in the location fields above?

Thanks very much!

-- Glenn Leavell glenn@usg.edu Office of Information and Instructional Technology Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia