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[Dovecot] 2.1 upgrade docs?
by Marc Perkel 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

Just wondering if there's any upgrade docs for 2.1 online?

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[Dovecot] dovecot 2 doesn't start with managesieve
by nti＠w4w.net 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

Hi I build dovecot 2.0.16 and and dovecot-pigeonhole-0.2.5 on two machines with the same options. The config files are equivalent. On the first machine everything works fine - on the second dovecot with managesive won't start (without sieve protocol it does). Error: socket() failed: Protocol not supported Error: service(managesieve-login): listen(::, 4190) failed: Protocol not supported Fatal: Failed to start listeners I controlled the config, build pigeonhole a second time - nothing helps. Any idea ? Is there a possibility to debug the start? Nicola ... plugin { ... sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap pop3 sieve ... service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } inet_listener sieve_deprecated { port = 2000 } } service managesieve { process_limit = 1024 } ... protocol sieve { managesieve_max_compile_errors = 10 }

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[Dovecot] user_filter problem
by sanito＠progresas.lt 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

Hello, I have a little bit complex setup. I'm trying to use dovecot lmtp and pop3 with user information stored in the LDAP database. The main problem is that email address and pop3 username are different for every mailbox (I cannot change this behaviour, because thousands of people already configured their email client for such a setup). So in my situation, user_filter for lmtp should be: user_filter=(mail=%u), but for pop3 it should be: user_filter=(cn=%u). Please, see: E-mail address: john(a)example.com pop3 username: 0005a pop3 password: very_secure_password And ldap ldiff for this mailbox: dn: cn=0005a,dc=example.com,ou=localmail,ou=mail uid: 0005a mail: john(a)example.com mailbox: /data/mail/example.com/0005a/Maildir/ sn: 0005a description: testing homeDirectory: /data/mail/example.com/0005a cn: 0005a userPassword:: e0NSWVBUfWxpOXBVaEw5SWJkRWc= objectClass: inetOrgPerson objectClass: CourierMailAccount objectClass: top I think I need to use different user_filter for lmtp and pop3, but it's not possible or I cannot find how to do it. Please, help! -- Best regards, dammit

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[Dovecot] Possible broken indexer(lucene/solr)?
by Ingo Thierack 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

Hello, try to use the new 2.1rc and don't get any data in the searchindex. Tried first lucene, and switched than back so solr. If I do an search in an mailfolder, i get in the dovecot-log 2012-02-06 22:17:11 | dovecot: | indexer-worker(xxxxxx): Indexed 0 messages in INBOX/dovecot Log from solr. Feb 6, 2012 10:17:11 PM org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore execute INFO: [] webapp=/solr path=/select params={fl=uid,score&sort=uid+asc&fq=%2Bbox:120ed10bbe9dcd4c8d2e0000f8146a47+%2Buser:"xxxxxxx"&q=body:"solr"&rows=9159} hits=0 status=0 QTime=1 Maybe I miss something. Upgraded from 2.0.15 to 2.1(head from repository yesterday) With 2.0 i see, if i start an search, solr had to work on the mail, now happens nothing. Upgrade the schema.xml, delete the old index. Regard Ingo Thierack

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[Dovecot] Feature request for maillog plugin
by Aydın Demirel 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

Hi, Is it possible to add the modification time and file name of the mail file to maillog plugin? Thanks -- *Aydın Demirel Endersys Ltd. Sistem Destek Mühendisi/ System Support Engineer* * *<<Endersys is the first Advanced Business Partner of Red Hat in Turkey! http://www.europe.redhat.com/partners/endersys/>> Phone : +90 216 470 9423 | GSM : +90 530 401 8203 Fax : +90 216 470 9508 | Web : http://www.endersys.com <http://www.endersys.com/> Blog : http://blog.endersys.com <http://blog.endersys.com/> Twitter : http://www.twitter.com/endersys LPI : The #1 Linux Certification for IT Professionals LPI (Linux Professional Institute) Turkey http://www.lpi-turkey.com <http://www.lpi-turkey.com/>

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[Dovecot] Homedir vs locations vs mail_location?
by Alexander Chekalin 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

Hello, I use Dovecot for rather long time, but I'm still in doubt for some small things. Here they are: 1. The homedir value points to the place where everything for the user stored at, while mail_location is something (some place) where mail stored at. if I deal with pure virtual users (all users are in sql tables and no system homes for them at all), should I ever care for returning meaningful value for 'homedir' (via password_query's userdb_home), or I can simple return empty or constant ('' or '123') for it and it won't mess anything? 2. If I use single (default) namespace, should I set namespace's location (to the same value as global mail_location), and should I expect anything strange if I skip it to set? Reversely, is it possible not to set global mail_location and set only namespace's location (which would be more logical as namespace definition is compact and easy to find in config)? I've reread my questions and see it is dummy ones, but I'd like to know that for sure. Thank you in advance, Alexander

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[Dovecot] dovecot freezes when trying to get mail from maildir with mail
by postmaster 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

I'm completely stumped by this problem and I've tried everything at present - including installing dovecot from scratch. The problem is that when trying to get email from the server -AND- there's email in the account, the pop3 or imap process freezes and no email is fetched. The crazy thing is, that it has been working perfectly, but suddenly I'm getting these freezes both when using telnet from localhost, roundcubemail on the same server and Seamonkey from another computer. Logging seems to work perfectly. For an account without email, dovecot finds the maildir++ and acts correctly. For an account -with- email, dovecot seems to find the maildir++, but also seems to try Namespace of which I haven't defined any. I've tried to get rawlog to work also, but that didn't work - the telnet process froze on login even though I'm quite sure I did the right thing and ps showed an active rawlog process Postfix is delivering the email straight into the mailboxes. Here is the information 4604ds1-ynoe:~ root# port installed | grep dovecot dovecot2 @2.0.18_0+mysql5+postgresql91 (active) dovecot2-sieve @0.2.5_1 (active) postfix @2.9.0_0+dovecot_sasl+mysql5+pcre+postgresql91 (active) 4604ds1-ynoe:~ root# 4604ds1-ynoe:log root# cat dovecot.log.txt Feb 19 11:46:52 4604ds1-ynoe dovecot[441]: master: Dovecot v2.0.18 starting up (core dumps disabled) Feb 19 11:51:47 4604ds1-ynoe dovecot[443]: auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /macports/lib/dovecot/auth Feb 19 11:51:47 4604ds1-ynoe dovecot[443]: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=495) Feb 19 11:52:20 4604ds1-ynoe dovecot[443]: auth: Debug: client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=imap secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 lport=143 rport=49180 resp=AGFidXNlQG1hdGhpZXNlbi5pbmZvAHRlc3R0ZXN0 Feb 19 11:52:20 4604ds1-ynoe dovecot[443]: auth-worker: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /macports/lib/dovecot/auth Feb 19 11:52:20 4604ds1-ynoe dovecot[443]: auth-worker: mysql(/macports/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock): Connected to database infomathiesenpostfixadmin Feb 19 11:52:20 4604ds1-ynoe dovecot[443]: auth-worker: Debug: sql(abuse(a)mathiesen.info,127.0.0.1): query: SELECT username AS user, domain, password FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'abuse(a)mathiesen.info' AND domain = 'mathiesen.info' AND active = 1 Feb 19 11:52:20 4604ds1-ynoe dovecot[443]: auth: Debug: client out: OK 1 user=abuse(a)mathiesen.info Feb 19 11:52:20 4604ds1-ynoe dovecot[443]: auth: Debug: master in: REQUEST 738852865 495 1 687658e957c0e4f473891548eecc49be Feb 19 11:52:20 4604ds1-ynoe dovecot[443]: auth-worker: Debug: sql(abuse(a)mathiesen.info,127.0.0.1): SELECT 5000 AS uid , 5000 AS gid , concat ( '/Volumes/BrugerData/PostFix/mail/' , maildir ) AS home , concat ( '/Volumes/BrugerData/PostFix/mail/' , maildir ) AS mail FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'abuse(a)mathiesen.info' AND domain = 'mathiesen.info' AND active = 1 Feb 19 11:52:20 4604ds1-ynoe dovecot[443]: auth: Debug: master out: USER 738852865 abuse(a)mathiesen.info uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/Volumes/BrugerData/PostFix/mail/mathiesen.info/abuse(a)mathiesen.info/ mail=/Volumes/BrugerData/PostFix/mail/mathiesen.info/abuse(a)mathiesen.info/ Feb 19 11:52:20 4604ds1-ynoe dovecot[443]: imap-login: Login: user=<abuse(a)mathiesen.info>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=503, secured Feb 19 11:52:20 4604ds1-ynoe dovecot[443]: imap: Debug: Added userdb setting: mail=/Volumes/BrugerData/PostFix/mail/mathiesen.info/abuse(a)mathiesen.info/ Feb 19 11:52:20 4604ds1-ynoe dovecot[443]: imap(abuse(a)mathiesen.info): Debug: Effective uid=5000, gid=5000, home=/Volumes/BrugerData/PostFix/mail/mathiesen.info/abuse(a)mathiesen.info/ Feb 19 11:52:20 4604ds1-ynoe dovecot[443]: imap(abuse(a)mathiesen.info): Debug: mdbox autodetect: stat(/Volumes/BrugerData/PostFix/mail/mathiesen.info/abuse(a)mathiesen.info/storage) failed: No such file or directory Feb 19 11:52:20 4604ds1-ynoe dovecot[443]: imap(abuse(a)mathiesen.info): Debug: sdbox autodetect: stat(/Volumes/BrugerData/PostFix/mail/mathiesen.info/abuse(a)mathiesen.info/mailboxes) failed: No such file or directory Feb 19 11:52:20 4604ds1-ynoe dovecot[443]: imap(abuse(a)mathiesen.info): Debug: maildir++: root=/Volumes/BrugerData/PostFix/mail/mathiesen.info/abuse(a)mathiesen.info, index=, control=, inbox=/Volumes/BrugerData/PostFix/mail/mathiesen.info/abuse(a)mathiesen.info, alt= Feb 19 11:53:01 4604ds1-ynoe dovecot[443]: imap(abuse(a)mathiesen.info): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=45/750 Feb 19 11:53:06 4604ds1-ynoe dovecot[443]: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=512) Feb 19 11:53:55 4604ds1-ynoe dovecot[443]: auth: Debug: client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=imap secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 lport=143 rport=49182 resp=AG1hY2ludG9zaEBtYXRoaWVzZW4uaW5mbwB0ZXN0dGVzdA== Feb 19 11:53:55 4604ds1-ynoe dovecot[443]: auth-worker: Debug: sql(macintosh(a)mathiesen.info,127.0.0.1): query: SELECT username AS user, domain, password FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'macintosh(a)mathiesen.info' AND domain = 'mathiesen.info' AND active = 1 Feb 19 11:53:55 4604ds1-ynoe dovecot[443]: auth: Debug: client out: OK 1 user=macintosh(a)mathiesen.info Feb 19 11:53:55 4604ds1-ynoe dovecot[443]: auth: Debug: master in: REQUEST 1866334209 512 1 332714ca2a070d7adb342d4baba4a19a Feb 19 11:53:55 4604ds1-ynoe dovecot[443]: auth-worker: Debug: sql(macintosh(a)mathiesen.info,127.0.0.1): SELECT 5000 AS uid , 5000 AS gid , concat ( '/Volumes/BrugerData/PostFix/mail/' , maildir ) AS home , concat ( '/Volumes/BrugerData/PostFix/mail/' , maildir ) AS mail FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'macintosh(a)mathiesen.info' AND domain = 'mathiesen.info' AND active = 1 Feb 19 11:53:55 4604ds1-ynoe dovecot[443]: auth: Debug: master out: USER 1866334209 macintosh(a)mathiesen.info uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/Volumes/BrugerData/PostFix/mail/mathiesen.info/macintosh(a)mathiesen.info/ mail=/Volumes/BrugerData/PostFix/mail/mathiesen.info/macintosh(a)mathiesen.info/ Feb 19 11:53:55 4604ds1-ynoe dovecot[443]: imap-login: Login: user=<macintosh(a)mathiesen.info>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=522, secured Feb 19 11:53:55 4604ds1-ynoe dovecot[443]: imap: Debug: Added userdb setting: mail=/Volumes/BrugerData/PostFix/mail/mathiesen.info/macintosh(a)mathiesen.info/ Feb 19 11:53:55 4604ds1-ynoe dovecot[443]: imap(macintosh(a)mathiesen.info): Debug: Effective uid=5000, gid=5000, home=/Volumes/BrugerData/PostFix/mail/mathiesen.info/macintosh(a)mathiesen.info/ Feb 19 11:53:55 4604ds1-ynoe dovecot[443]: imap(macintosh(a)mathiesen.info): Debug: mdbox autodetect: stat(/Volumes/BrugerData/PostFix/mail/mathiesen.info/macintosh(a)mathiesen.info/storage) failed: No such file or directory Feb 19 11:53:55 4604ds1-ynoe dovecot[443]: imap(macintosh(a)mathiesen.info): Debug: sdbox autodetect: stat(/Volumes/BrugerData/PostFix/mail/mathiesen.info/macintosh(a)mathiesen.info/mailboxes) failed: No such file or directory Feb 19 11:53:55 4604ds1-ynoe dovecot[443]: imap(macintosh(a)mathiesen.info): Debug: maildir++: root=/Volumes/BrugerData/PostFix/mail/mathiesen.info/macintosh(a)mathiesen.info, index=, control=, inbox=/Volumes/BrugerData/PostFix/mail/mathiesen.info/macintosh(a)mathiesen.info, alt= Feb 19 11:54:13 4604ds1-ynoe dovecot[443]: imap(macintosh(a)mathiesen.info): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /Volumes/BrugerData/PostFix/mail/mathiesen.info/macintosh(a)mathiesen.info: mode=0700 gid=-1 Feb 19 12:12:16 4604ds1-ynoe dovecot[441]: master: Error: service(imap): child 522 killed with signal 3 Feb 19 12:15:48 4604ds1-ynoe dovecot[441]: master: Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=1086 uid=0 code=unknown 0) 4604ds1-ynoe:log root# 4604ds1-ynoe:mail root# ps -axj | grep dovecot root 441 1 441 56804e0 0 Ss ?? 0:00.01 /macports/sbin/dovecot -c /macports/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf _dovecot 442 441 441 56804e0 0 S ?? 0:00.01 dovecot/anvil root 443 441 441 56804e0 0 S ?? 0:00.01 dovecot/log 5000 522 441 441 56804e0 0 S ?? 0:00.01 dovecot/imap root 452 362 452 5680af8 1 S+ s001 0:00.00 tail -f dovecot.log root 543 380 542 4d84c30 2 R+ s002 0:00.00 grep dovecot 4604ds1-ynoe:mail root# kill -QUIT 522 4604ds1-ynoe:mail root# dovecot stop 4604ds1-ynoe:mail root# ps -axj | grep dovecot root 452 362 452 5680af8 1 S+ s001 0:00.00 tail -f dovecot.log root 1091 380 1090 4d84c30 2 R+ s002 0:00.00 grep dovecot 4604ds1-ynoe:mail root# 4604ds1-ynoe:~ root# telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready. a login "abuse(a)mathiesen.info" "x" a OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS] Logged in a list "" * * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX" a OK List completed. a select inbox * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. * 0 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1326334461] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 4] Predicted next UID * OK [HIGHESTMODSEQ 1] Highest a OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. a logout * BYE Logging out a OK Logout completed. Connection closed by foreign host. 4604ds1-ynoe:~ root# telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready. a login "macintosh(a)mathiesen.info" "x" a OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS] Logged in a list "" * * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX" a OK List completed. a select inbox Connection closed by foreign host. 4604ds1-ynoe:~ root# 4604ds1-ynoe:~ root# dovecot -n # 2.0.18: /macports/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Darwin 10.8.0 i386 hfs auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = plain base_dir = /macports/var/run/dovecot/ default_internal_user = _dovecot default_login_user = _dovenull disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_gid = 5000 first_valid_uid = 5000 mail_debug = yes mail_gid = 5000 mail_location = maildir:/Volumes/BrugerData/PostFix/mail/%d/%u mail_uid = 5000 managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave mmap_disable = yes passdb { args = /macports/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size } protocols = imap pop3 service postlogin { executable = script-login -d rawlog } ssl = no syslog_facility = local2 userdb { args = /macports/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } protocol pop3 { pop3_client_workarounds = oe-ns-eoh outlook-no-nuls } 4604ds1-ynoe:~ root#

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[Dovecot] Something is strange - perhaps my AMD processors ?
by Finn B 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

Moi Timo / all. I've been using Dovecot on my Qmailtoaster production mailserver for some years - since 1.0.7 and current Version 2.0.10 - works perfectly. Now I am installing a backupsystem and a VM testsystem (2 boxes) - and no matter how and what Version I am installing on these 2 boxes I get below messages whenever I try to test connection with Telnet (localhost 110 / 995). I have tried to install all Dovecot versions from 2.010 to 2.018 as rpms, yums and as source and compiled it. It's on Centos5.7 (64) with Qmailtoaster (which I have installed as I have done many times before) I have tried to copy all my settings from my current production system (Centos 5.7, latest and greatest versions of qmailtoaster and Dovecot 2.0.10) - nothing helps. Now I come to think of it I realize that my production system is intel based and the 2 new ones are AMD based and wonder if this may be the case ? Dovecot.log master: Error: Service(auth): command startup failed, throttling log: Error: Service(auth): child 1859 returned error 89 (Fatal failure) pop3-login: Error: Timeout waiting for handshake from auth server. my pid=1858, input bytes=0 Regards, Finn B

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[Dovecot] Questions still about a uw-imap -> dovecot conversion
by Steve Campbell 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

The more I read about all of this, the more I'm thinking about moving to maildir format. My switchover this weekend is full of holes due to the way user's imap folders were laid out. Some had folders in their home directory and others might have folders in their /home/mail directory. Some how, Horde/Imp seemed to keep track of it. Dovecot is not doing so well. I've been reading about the conversion technique to convert to maildir, but I'm wondering if I can do this based on the way our users are set up. Most are pop accounts. Our webmail is configured to read the inbox from /var/spool/mail and their imap folders from /home or /home/mail. Some have imap accounts on their desktop defined through their mail client. RH/Centos seems to want me to switch to postfix since most of the documentation I find doesn't mention Sendmail. My filesystem is laid out to handle Inboxes in /var/spool/mail and imap folders in /home(/mail) and these aren't logical volumes but true partitions, so I've got to consider this as I make any changes. I also run pop using dovecot, so I'll need to figure all this out. I've read the technique linked to on the dovecot site that points to "Replacing UW-IMAP with Dovecot on RHEL 3" written back in 2004, and that's about the only real pointers I'm finding. I don't want to have to go around to each machine and change their clients to IMAP.. Anyone care to comment on anything similar they've done and how many pitfalls they ran into and what they were? steve campbell

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[Dovecot] A Postfix/Dovecot example with SQLite backend [crossposted]
by /dev/rob0 19 Feb '12

19 Feb '12

There are many mail howtos on the web ... can one more hurt? http://rob0.nodns4.us/howto/README http://rob0.nodns4.us/howto/ http://rob0.nodns4.us/howto/latest.tar.gz (all files) (Sorry, not HTML yet. That is on the agenda.) This is a multiple address class sample implementation of a Postfix MTA and Dovecot IMAP server using a SQLite3 data backend. Domain lookups, user maps, access and transport maps: all using a single, shared SQLite database file. What, other than the SQLite backend, distinguishes this from other mail system howtos? The Postfix high points include a complete implementation of all address classes and per-address transport(5) maps, virtual(8) UID/GID maps, and smtpd(8) recipient access(5) maps. (The latter is using smtpd_restriction_classes, which are not discussed in detail, but are implemented in an interesting way.) On the Dovecot side, it's mostly standard stuff. The SQL deny userdb implementation, and the seamless integration of system and SQL users, might be interesting. I think the database itself is the best part of this example. It's as close to "normalized" as I think it can reasonably be. A significant fact is that each revision of the system has tended to simplify the schema. That's a good sign, I think. One central Domain table lists all domains and hostnames to which the server makes reference. Likewise, a central Address table lists all addresses (with a pointer to the Domain table for each record.) The Alias table defines relationships between Address entries. (Both local(8) and virtual(5) alias maps exist in that table.) Comments and suggestions are welcome, on-list if it's topical to whichever list (please don't crosspost unless comments are relevant to both lists), or offlist to the address in the README file (or as detailed below.) Thanks for your interest. -- http://rob0.nodns4.us/ -- system administration and consulting Offlist GMX mail is seen only if "/dev/rob0" is in the Subject:

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