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[Dovecot] search pattern -- which format?
by Ralf Hildebrandt 28 Dec '10

28 Dec '10

I had a look at the docs, but I could really see which kind of patterns the "search patterns" for doveadm must be. Regexp? PCRE? -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 ralf.hildebrandt(a)charite.de | http://www.charite.de

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[Dovecot] Can dovecot+solr search on attachments?
by Antonio Perez-Aranda 28 Dec '10

28 Dec '10

I remember to read that dovecot+solr support search on mail attachment Is this true? Maybe, is needed to improve the basic solr schema to do this? -- Antonio Pérez-Aranda Alcaide aperezaranda(a)yaco.es Yaco Sistemas S.L. http://www.yaco.es/ C/ Rioja 5, 41001 Sevilla Teléfono +34 954 50 00 57 Fax +34 954 50 09 29

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[Dovecot] Iphone all imap folders are visibles !
by Frank Bonnet 28 Dec '10

28 Dec '10

Hello When I use my iphone to read my emails through IMAP I can see ALL folders that are in my email home directory not only those are listed in the .subscriptions file ... This should be a real security problem Anyone have the same problem ? Thanks

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[Dovecot] director in large(ish) environments
by Cor Bosman 28 Dec '10

28 Dec '10

Hey all, just wondering who here is running the director service in a larger environment. I just switched our whole production setup to the director and am quite pleased with the result. We're doing a peak of about 25000 tot 30000 concurrent sessions on 3 servers. But ive shut 1 server down a couple of days ago to see what would happen and 2 servers carried the load easily. (16 CPU, 24GB memory servers). If others are using the director on larger setups maybe we can all post when things do or dont work well. Now to see if the solution is better than the problem :) Cor

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[Dovecot] Migrate from Maildir to mdbox
by Odhiambo Washington 28 Dec '10

28 Dec '10

Looking at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat, I do not see much on how to do a migration from Maildir to mdbox. That page isn't quite updated it looks. I have several domains (virtual) with the following storage layout: /var/spool/virtual/$domain. So the users have their mail stored as follows: /var/spool/virtual/domain1/$user/Maildir /var/spool/virtual/domain2/$user/Maildir /var/spool/virtual/domain3/$user/Maildir /var/spool/virtual/domainN/$user/Maildir >From the wiki, I am told the steps to take are: 1. Set mail_location=mdbox:~/mdbox 2. Run "doveadm mirror -u username maildir:~/Maildir" The instruction above confuses me because in my situation, I don't have a "username" per se. dovecot-deliver knows how to figure out my usernames and their mail_location settings. How do I derive my "username" when users are virtual, stored in MySQL back end? Again, the right command seems to rely on dsync, not "doveadm mirror". I could manually get all the values for the users for each domain and run: dysnc -u $u -o "mail_location=maildir:/var/spool/virtual/domain1/$u/Maildir" mirror "mdbox:/var/spool/virtual/domain1/$u/mdbox" This is so manual, especially because I have to (if I remember well) create /var/spool/virtual/domain1/$u/mdbox (and have the permissions right) before running dysnc. Is there an easier way out, perhaps?? -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Damn!!

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[Dovecot] Postfix - deliver problem.
by Mark Bronstein 28 Dec '10

28 Dec '10

I really could use some help. I have been using dovecot and qmail on Debian for years with no problems. I just replaced qmail with Postfix and have not been able to get messages to dovecot via deliver. I have tried to set it up as a virtual mailbox only "no lookup necessary" system following the vaious help pages. I am using just a single user vmail:mail to execute postfix and deliver. My Dovecot.conf is: ----------------------- # 1.2.16: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-194.17.1.el5.028stab070.7 i686 Debian 5.0.7 simfs log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot_info.log log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap pop3 imaps pop3s disable_plaintext_auth: no verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login first_valid_uid: 112 last_valid_uid: 112 first_valid_gid: 8 last_valid_gid: 8 mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/domains/%d/%n/Maildir mail_debug: yes mail_full_filesystem_access: yes mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 lda: postmaster_address: mark(a)bronsteinlaw.com mail_plugins: sieve log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-local-deliver.log auth_socket_path: var/run/dovecot/auth-master auth default: user: vmail verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passwd userdb: driver: static args: uid=vmail gid=mail home=/var/mail/domains/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes socket: type: connect master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: mail plugin: sieve_global_dir: /etc/dovecot/sieve/global/ -------------------------------- I have the dovecot deliver line in postfix's master.cf according to the docs: --------------- dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d ${recipient} ------------------ Incoming emails are being saved to the Postfix queue but then delivery is unsuccessful with an error message of: 2010-12-26 23:11:09 deliver(mark(a)bronsteinlaw.com): Error: userdb lookup: connect(var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: No such file or directory Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Mark B

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[Dovecot] Kicking by dovecot as proxy?
by Antonio Perez-Aranda 27 Dec '10

27 Dec '10

I'm using dovecot 2.0 as proxy to make easy the migration from Courier to Dovecot. ¿Is it possible to use doveadm kick on a proxy connection? Example: telnet (login as user1) -> dovecot (proxy) (user1) -> courier (user1) If I exec doveadm who on "dovecot", any user are connected. -- Antonio Pérez-Aranda Alcaide aperezaranda(a)yaco.es Yaco Sistemas S.L. http://www.yaco.es/ C/ Rioja 5, 41001 Sevilla Teléfono +34 954 50 00 57 Fax +34 954 50 09 29

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[Dovecot] Status update
by Timo Sirainen 27 Dec '10

27 Dec '10

Just in case you're wondering: I should hopefully soon get back to answering all the pending mails and start coding. I moved back to Finland a week ago. I should get my proper internet connection on Wednesday, although this 3.5G isn't too bad either. I couldn't get my old Mac Mini to work properly anymore so I went and bought a new machine. Dovecot recompiles in 43 seconds now. :)

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[Dovecot] passwd, gid and uid
by Mauricio Tavares 25 Dec '10

25 Dec '10

I forgot the answer for this: in http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/PasswdFile, we have the passwd file defined as user:password:uid:gid:(gecos):home:(shell):extra_fields What should the uid and gid be associated with? In my setup I told postfix to use Dovecot LDA's deliver, which then is saving files as uid:gid of 1500:1500. How would that affect the uid:gid used in the passwd file? From what I read in the dovecot's wiki, you want them *not* to be anything that has the rights to access the emails. So, does that mean any value for them will do?

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[Dovecot] Maildir feature I'd like to see - SSD for newer messages
by Marc Perkel 24 Dec '10

24 Dec '10

SSD drives are very fast but expensive. So I have a crude idea that I'd like to see. May not be practical but would like to get some thoughts on it. Some new SSDs use SATA 3 (6gb/sec) with 355/mb/sec read speeds and 215MB/sec write. Put these in raid 0 and it screams! Can you imagine how fast that would be? What would be nice is if new email were on faster drives with old email being migrated to larger mechanical cheaper storage. Perhaps messages over a month old? From dovecot's perspective it would sort of all look the same but maybe one a week a script would run migrating older messages to slower media. It would also make backups easier. The faster newer messages could be archived hourly. On the weekend after the archiving script was run the older message could be backed up once a week. I'm not sure what it would take to make dovecot seamlessly access email from two different locations or if this is practical. Just wanted to throw the idea out there to see if something sticks.

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