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[Dovecot] most of INBOX missing?
by William Lott 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Greetings. I'm having an issue with dovecot that I'm hoping that someone can help me with. Most of the mail in my INBOX has mysteriously disappeared and I'd like to get it back. It's all in the ~/Maildir/cur directory and dovecot reports that 1048 messages exist when given the SELECT imap command. But Thunderbird and the SEARCH imap command only list 25 messages: [wlott@rootbeer ~]$ ls Maildir/cur | wc -l 1048 [wlott@rootbeer ~]$ MAIL=maildir:~/Maildir /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN LISTEXT LIST-SUBSCRIBED NAMESPACE] Logged in as wlott x SELECT INBOX * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft NonJunk $MDNSent $Label1 $Forwarded Junk) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft NonJunk $MDNSent $Label1 $Forwarded Junk \*)] Flags permitted. * 1048 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1117080198] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 1700] Predicted next UID x OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. x SEARCH ALL * SEARCH 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 x OK Search completed. [wlott@rootbeer ~]$ I'm running dovecot version 0.99.14-8 under Fedora Core 4. I saw on the dovecot website that 0.99 isn't supported anymore, but I'm hoping that someone can help me recover my lost email none the less. Thanks, -William

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[Dovecot] Rotating Dovecot's logfile
by Odhiambo WASHINGTON 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Any *BSD user on this list already having a means of rotating the dovecot logfile? What signal number do I need to send to the daemon to reopen its logfile? -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html DISCLAIMER: See http://www.wananchi.com/bms/terms.php -- +======================================================================+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington <wash(a)wananchi.com> Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +======================================================================+ Be a better psychiatrist and the world will beat a psychopath to your door.

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[Dovecot] Limiting number of IMAP connections per user
by Simon L Jackson 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Hi, Is there a way of limiting the number of IMAP connections (i.e. processes) per user? Despite asking users to set their email client settings to limit themselves to 2 connections, some still have this set to 10 or more. Cheers -- Simon L Jackson Carringbush.Net +- Carringbush.Net Hosting * Development * Advice Web: www.carringbush.net <http://www.carringbush.net/> Email: simon.jackson(a)carringbush.net <mailto:simon.jackson@carringbush.net> Office: +61 3 9411 4400 Support: +61 3 9411 4444 Fax: +61 3 9411 4499 Level 1 15 Bedford Street Collingwood VIC 3066 Australia P.O. Box 1464 Collingwood VIC 3066 Australia +-

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[Dovecot] dovecot dreate directory instead mailbox
by Roberto Tagliaferri 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Hi, i've dovecot 1.0b7 with postfix (pop3, real user) and i see a strange thing: if i create a new user and i log in in pop3, dovecot create a directory (and then postfix reject the email with an error); i must send an email and THEN log in pop server... -- Roberto Tagliaferri Responsabile Progettazione & Produzione TosNet s.r.l. - Internet Service Provider r.tagliaferri(a)tosnet.it www.tosnet.it

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[Dovecot] Incorrect GSSAPI Service Name for POP3
by Tim Steiner 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

In pop3-login/client-authenticate.c, when sasl_server_auth_begin() is called, it does so with the service name of "POP3". GSSAPI uses this service name when obtaining its service credentials. The problem is that according to http://www.iana.org/assignments/gssapi-service-names , the service name should instead be simply "pop". This causes GSSAPI authentication to fail when used with a POP3 account. I have created a small patch that corrects this problem for GSSAPI only, as I do not know if other mechanisms are affected by this. --Tim Steiner ----------------------------START PATCH---------------------------- diff -ruN dovecot-1.0.beta8/src/auth/mech-gssapi.c dovecot-1.0.beta8.new/src/auth/mech-gssapi.c --- dovecot-1.0.beta8/src/auth/mech-gssapi.c 2006-09-18 17:35:02.000000000 -0500 +++ dovecot-1.0.beta8.new/src/auth/mech-gssapi.c 2006-09-18 17:37:46.000000000 -0500 @@ -101,7 +101,11 @@ gss_name_t gss_principal; principal_name = t_str_new(128); - str_append(principal_name, t_str_lcase(request->service)); + if(strcmp(request->service, "POP3") == 0) { + str_append(principal_name, "pop"); + } else { + str_append(principal_name, t_str_lcase(request->service)); + } str_append_c(principal_name, '@'); str_append(principal_name, my_hostname); -----------------------------END PATCH-----------------------------

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[Dovecot] Default subscriptions
by Vegard Svanberg 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Is it possible to force a subscription to an IMAP folder? So that a user by default is subscribed to folder <foo> and cannot unsubscribe. -- Vegard Svanberg <vegard(a)svanberg.no> [*Takapa@IRC (EFnet)]

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Re: [Dovecot] Big sites using Dovecot
by Bill Boebel 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

On Fri, September 22, 2006 5:05 am, Robin Elfrink <robin(a)15augustus.nl> said: > -How many mailboxes do you run on one backend? The limit on the backend is disk. We're comfortable at about 10,000 mailboxes per 7200 RPM SATA drive. The more disks you put on each backend server, the more mailboxes each server can handle. > -Do you have any anti-spam/virus running on them or is that done earlier? Yes. Currently 17 servers doing just filtering. These run Postfix, SpamAssassin, Policyd, ClamAV. > -Have you ever used perdition and if so, how does dovecot as a proxy > compare to that? Yes. Perdition requires a process per connection though, so it does not scale well. With Dovecot's proxy (and also the nginx proxy, http://sysoev.ru/en/) individual processes can handle multiple connections, and takes advantage of epoll for network events which is ideal for handling large numbers of idle IMAP connections. With Perdition we'd run at 2000 connections per server, with Dovecot we haven't it a peak yet, but expect to peak at around 15,000 - 25,000 connections per proxy server. Obviously the bigger the box, the more connections it can handle. > -Do you mind me asking these questions? Nope. Ask away. If I can't answer it I'll tell you. Bill

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[Dovecot] Running just part of dovecot
by Marshal Newrock 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

I'm currently setting up a large mail system, with different services split out onto different machines. What I want is this: machine1: dovecot smtp auth, no pop/imap machine2: dovecot lda, no pop/imap machine3: pop/imap, nothing else machine3 is obviously not the issue. Is there a way to run machine1 and machine2 with just their respective services, but no pop/imap? -- Marshal Newrock Ideal Solution, LLC - http://www.idealso.com

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Re: [Dovecot] How to check Release/Version of Currently installed Dovecot
by Bill Boebel 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

On Fri, September 22, 2006 9:29 am, "Agarwal, Lalit" <LAgarwal(a)ghi.com> said: > We have dovecot installed on a Solaris 9 server, is there any way to check what > release/version is installed. /usr/sbin/dovecot --version Bill

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[Dovecot] How to check Release/Version of Currently installed Dovecot
by Agarwal, Lalit 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Hi, We have dovecot installed on a Solaris 9 server, is there any way to check what release/version is installed. Thanks, Lalit > Confidentiality Note: This electronic message transmission is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you have received this transmission, but are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please contact me at 212-615-4204 and delete and destroy the original message and all copies. Thank You. > >

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