October 2023 - dovecot

Compression: all or nothing?
by Alex King 02 Oct '23

02 Oct '23

Using 2.3.13 (89f716dc2) (debian package), with mdbox storage. I considering adding the zlib plugin. I understand that reading mail can cope with either compressed or uncompressed mailboxes. I'm wondering if I can leave the main storage uncompressed, while having the alternate storage compressed. There does not seem to be a way to configure this, from https://doc.dovecot.org/settings/plugin/zlib-plugin/ it seems compression (on saving emails) is an all-or-nothing option? Can I leave zlib_save unset in my main configuration, and have doveadm use some alternate configuration with zlib_save set? It doesn't look hopeful because I don't see the ability to use a different config at https://wiki.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Altmove. Perhaps I would need multiple copies of the daemon running? Or is it better just to compress everything? I plan to store older mails (perhaps 3months+) in the alternative storage, and was thinking it would be nice to have those compressed, while I don't need to compress the main store. Any feedback welcome. Thanks, Alex

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Ping
by Paul Enlund 02 Oct '23

02 Oct '23

just a test sorry for noise

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Re: Changed separator, sub folders not showing new e-mail
by Francis Augusto Medeiros-Logeay 02 Oct '23

02 Oct '23

I found the answer here: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/441313/no-mailbox-doesnt-exist-se… Apparently on Mac one needs to update the separator on a file, since it doesn’t seem that the Mail.app does it for itself. On the iPhone it happened automatically. Best, Francis

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Changed separator, sub folders not showing new e-mail
by Francis Augusto Medeiros-Logeay 02 Oct '23

02 Oct '23

Hi, I recently changed the mailbox separator from '.' to '/' so that I could have shared mailboxes working. However, while the mailboxes show fine on Roundcube and on other web-based e-mail clients, on the Mail.app on my Mac I don't get newer messages on those sub folders. For example, I have a subfolder Test. Mails filtered to be dropped there, show fine. But I have one called Lists, with a sub folder called "Dovecot". I can't read mails that are under "Lists/Dovecot". Can anyone help? Best, Francis -- Francis Augusto Medeiros-Logeay Oslo, Norway

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