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[Dovecot] Advice on converting from Mbox to Maildir?
by Villalovos, John L 04 Jun '04

04 Jun '04

Does anyone have advice or pointers on good documentation on how to convert a system from using the Mbox format to using Maildir? I recently upgraded to Fedora Core 2 from Fedora Core 1 and discovered that UW-IMAP was gone. So I switched over to using Dovecot. So far so good. But I would like to convert my system to start using the Maildir format. How easy is this to accomplish? Can I keep my Inbox /var/spool/mail/user_name as an mbox format and have my other folders as Maildir? What would I have to change for Sendmail to make it use Maildir for the Inbox? Can procmail support Maildir? Any pointers or help would be much appreciated? John

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RE: [Dovecot] Supporting POP & IMAP with Sendmail
by Villalovos, John L 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

John Duino wrote: > That was the one question I haven't had answered (and it's > mostly just out of pure paranoia that I ask it :) Yes. POP email works fine with Maildir for me. I am using dovecot-0.99.10.5-1 which was on the development tree of Fedora. Though I would think the one that came stock with Fedora 2 should work as well. I have no reason to think it won't. One note. I don't use POP that much. I have one person who uses it and they haven't complained. > So if all the mail is moved to Maildir (thus eliminating the typical > mailspool), and somebody pop's onto the server, Dovecot will use the > Maildir/Inbox for the pop? Yes it will. If you read the mail-storages.txt documentation file it talks about it. I would read the section on "Detecting what to use". I did NOT set the default_mail_env variable in my /etc/dovecot.conf and it figured it out automagically :) Good luck, John

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[Dovecot] 0.99.10.5 imap flag update issues
by Hauke Fath 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

Hi, there is an issue left in 0.99.10.5 which (I think) is a problem with imap status flags. It shows up in two places: (1) When new mail is delivered to the inbox, the last read mail changes to "unread". (2) When you move mails from the inbox to another folder with Mozilla (1.6 on win32, Linux, NetBSD), they are not removed from the inbox, effectively performing a copy instead of a move. And, while I am at it, (3) I see a regular log entry from a MS Outlook 2000 SP 3 Jun 3 10:26:23 bounce imap-login: SSL_read() syscall failed: EOF [130.83.XXX.XXX] The setup here: OS NetBSD 2.0beta, MTA sendmail 8.12.11, LDA maildrop 1.3.9, dovecot 0.99.10.5, OpenSSL 0.9.7d Any ideas? hauke -- Hauke Fath /~\ The ASCII Ribbon Campaign Institut für Nachrichtentechnik \ / No HTML/RTF in email TU Darmstadt X No Word docs in email Ruf +49-6151-16-3281 / \ Respect for open standards

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RE: [Dovecot] Getting POP3 up and running
by Villalovos, John L 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org wrote: > According to my understanding of the documentation I changed > the protocols > line in dovecot.conf to: > > #protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s Did you really just change the commented out line? If so then you didn't do anything :( You will need to uncomment the line and restart it. The "#" at the beginning of the line is a comment. John

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[Dovecot] Getting POP3 up and running
by Antonio Nunes 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

Hi! Now that I happily smiling have Squirrelmail working on the new setup (Fedora Core 2), the next hurdle seems to be getting POP3 to work. According to my understanding of the documentation I changed the protocols line in dovecot.conf to: #protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s then restarted dovecot, but still can't connect to pop3 (not even after rebooting the whole system). Doing an nmap on my server does not show port 110 as open. Any clues as to what I may be overlooking? Thanks for your support, Antonio There is a world of difference between searching for happiness and choosing to be happy!

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RE: [Dovecot] Supporting POP & IMAP with Sendmail
by Villalovos, John L 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org wrote: > I dug thru the archives but didn't see a clear answer to > this. A client > has an existing sendmail/pop3 system, and I would like to switch to > dovecot for imap support. For imap I much prefer the Maildir > format over > mbox, however, sendmail natively dumps to mbox (mailspool) and that is > what pop typically reads. I've read the threads on how to > make sendmail > write to Maildir. > > My problem is that I'd like to support both pop/mailspool and > imap/maildir. My suggestion would be to use Dovecot as your POP and IMAP server. And convert everything to use Maildir unless there is some special reason you want to keep mbox format for. Setup procmail to deliver all mail to the maildir folders. See my previous message on how to do it. John -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

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[Dovecot] Loggin error with Squirrelmail on Fedore Core 2
by Antonio Nunes 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

Hi! I am switching a mail server setup to a new machine which has RHL Fedore Core 2 installed, which uses Dovecot. I managed to get Squirrelmail to work on my personal account, but when logging in with some other accounts I get the following error as response: ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server. Query: Capability I did a web search on this and found a message from Tim Middleton who experienced the same problem. He also suggests a workaround: "I put in a chron job to touch into existance any non-existing mailboxes for everyone in the passwd file periodically, which mostly eliminates the problem. But I'd still like to know why the server is having the problem, if anyone can make any suggestions." I would like to try this, but I am still fairly new to Unix. Could anyone show me how to set up such a chron job? Are there other, manual, ways to touch the mailboxes? Thanks, Antonio Nunes Don't let who you can be keep you from being who you already are.

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[Dovecot] Supporting POP & IMAP with Sendmail
by John Duino 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

Greetings! I dug thru the archives but didn't see a clear answer to this. A client has an existing sendmail/pop3 system, and I would like to switch to dovecot for imap support. For imap I much prefer the Maildir format over mbox, however, sendmail natively dumps to mbox (mailspool) and that is what pop typically reads. I've read the threads on how to make sendmail write to Maildir. My problem is that I'd like to support both pop/mailspool and imap/maildir. While running dovecot in imap-only it will use mbox format to read the /var/mail/user as the Inbox and then create the full imap structure under ~user/mail but in mbox format, not maildir. If/when I turn on both pop and imap in dovecot will it allow this with the current config? Or will I still need to convert sendmail output to maildir...and then I assume dovecot/pop will read from ~user/Maildir/Inbox even though it is in Maildir format? Basically, if I'd prefer to not have to convert sendmail to Maildir format, have dovecot always treat /var/mail/user as the Inbox for both pop and imap, and for those who switch to imap, have it store their other folders in ~user/Maildir. Asking too much? Thanks! John

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RE: [Dovecot] Advice on converting from Mbox to Maildir?
by Villalovos, John L 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

To recap what I have learned :) dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org wrote: > Does anyone have advice or pointers on good documentation on how to > convert a system from using the Mbox format to using Maildir? > > I recently upgraded to Fedora Core 2 from Fedora Core 1 and discovered > that UW-IMAP was gone. So I switched over to using Dovecot. > So far so > good. > > But I would like to convert my system to start using the > Maildir format. > > How easy is this to accomplish? Fairly easy on the small system I had. I only have around 8 people using email off of my system. > Can I keep my Inbox /var/spool/mail/user_name as an mbox > format and have > my other folders as Maildir? Timo says that it is NOT available in the version that comes with Fedora Core 2. It will be available in the 1.0 series by defining multiple namespaces. The current 1.0-tests allow this. > What would I have to change for Sendmail to make it use > Maildir for the Inbox? Sendmail does NOT need to be changed. > Can procmail support Maildir? Yes and that is what you need to change. I setup /etc/procmailrc to have the line: DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/ Make sure there is the terminating / on that line. What this will do is make all new mail that is delivered via procmail go to each user's Maildir folder. But what you need to do first is convert your existing mbox mail into maildir format. I used the program that was recommended to me: mb2md http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/ This program worked great to convert my /var/spool/mail/user_name stuff and also folders that I had created under ~/mail/ So now my whole system is using Maildir format. If you had a big system this might be a big pain :( John -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

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[Dovecot] Lost messages when "Moved to Trash"
by Fred Mulharin 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

We are using Dovecot 0.99.10.5 on a Redhat 9.0 Box. We are using the Squirrelmail Webmail client, and have occasionally had a problem with users move messages from their Inbox to the "Trash" folder. The Selected messages move to the Trash folder, but the rest of the messages in the INBOX disappear. Fred -- Fred Mulharin Systems Technology Supervisor Times Herald-Record fmulharin(a)th-record.com ..We are the trusted leader in news and information for the communities we serve ..because we all live here

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