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EXT4/LVM recommendations for 3TB of mdbox ?
by Nicolas C. 25 Jun '15

25 Jun '15

Hello, Do you have recommendations on EXT4 and LVM options for a 3TB file-system for mdbox? We currently use the mbox format on a XFS with poor performances since the update in v2.1 (Debian). We will switch to EXT4 to have the possibility of shrinking the file-system if needed (which is not possible with XFS), we currently have LVM partitions but with mdbox we will use LVM snapshots to backup the server in a consistent state. So, - any particular options to use with mkfs.ext4 for the creation of the FS ? - do you recommend a «thin» logical volume ? Our storage (IBM Storwize v7000) already have thin provisioning capabilities. The server will be a VMware virtual machine running Debian with RDM LUNs of 500GB. Data blocks will be automatically spread across several RAID disk (SSD, SAS, SATA) by the v7000. The «mdbox_rotate_size» will be configured around 10MB. Thanks, Nicolas C.

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why would replicated to server ask for extra fs permissions?
by lejeczek 24 Jun '15

24 Jun '15

I think I'm near getting a simple replication, but on server which is still "empty" I get: Initialization failed: Namespace '': mkdir(/var/spool/mail/ccnr.biotechnology/nr412/Maildir) failed: Permission denied (euid=1187(nr412) egid=513(Domain Users) missing +w perm: /var/spool/mail, we're not in group 12(mail), dir owned by 0:12 mode=0775 but repl from server runs just fine and their configs are virtually identical. What I missed? many thanks

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is it safe to have two backed used for the same user?
by lejeczek 24 Jun '15

24 Jun '15

hi everybody I wonder if it is safe (and wise) to have two passw-user databases for the same one user. I'm thinking, mail to me via pam mail to me(a)this.domain via ldap whole Maildir would be essentially the same one storage target, I see permissions have to be mangled, available to write for both vmail and actual uid. what do you think? Is it how it's done? regards

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Quota question
by Ralf Hildebrandt 24 Jun '15

24 Jun '15

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Quota/Configuration says: concat('*:bytes=', quota_limit_bytes) AS quota_rule and concat('*:bytes=', quota_limit_bytes) AS userdb_quota_rule but a generic quota_rule on the same page says: plugin { quota = maildir:User quota quota_rule = *:storage=1G quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+100M } Are "bytes=" and "storage=" equivalent? http://wiki2.dovecot.org/UserDatabase/ExtraFields also shows "storage=": user_query = SELECT home, uid, gid, \ '*:storage=100M' as quota_rule, mail_plugins, \ 'gz' as `plugin/zlib_save` FROM users WHERE userid = '%u' -- [*] sys4 AG http://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Franziskanerstraße 15, 81669 München Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Marc Schiffbauer Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Florian Kirstein

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Migration from courier-imap to dovecot
by alex 23 Jun '15

23 Jun '15

hello, I search a solution to migrate a courier-impa mail accounts in maildir format to a dovecot mail accounts in sandbox format. The first server is an ubuntu 10.4 with courier-imap in maildir format, the accounts are managed by postfix 2.7.0 with MySQL The second server is an debian 7.8 (wheezy) with dovecot 2.2.13 in sdbox format, the accounts are managed by postfix 2.9.6 with MySQL My request is, how to import and convert the mail accounts ?? cordially, *--* *Alexandre Bagouet*

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Assert test not compatible with s390(x) and ppc64 architectures
by Michal Hlavinka 23 Jun '15

23 Jun '15

Hi, we have found that assert test fails on some architectures: test-net.c:59: Assert failed: net_addr2ip("127.0.0.1", &ip) == 0 && ip.family == AF_INET && ip.u.ip4.s_addr == (127 | (1 << 24)) It seems as bug in test suit as test is expecting IPv4 address in LE format (0x0100007f), but it gets address in BE format(0x7f000001). Patch in attachment should fix this issue. Regards Michal Hlavinka

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passdb pam and args/format
by lejeczek 23 Jun '15

23 Jun '15

I wonder if queries to/via pam are formatable? What I'm thinking I'd like to try is to use pam with users(a)local.domain. And I guess I'd have to loose domain part somehow. many thanks

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a temporary failure
by lejeczek 23 Jun '15

23 Jun '15

dear all I have a postfix relaying to dovecot's lda but "strangely" it does not work, I mean I imaging it's me doing something wrong, yet I cannot figure out what. postfix logs: to=<me(a)my.domain>,orig_to=<root@localhost>, relay=dovecot, delay=39296, delays=39294/2.2/0/0.27, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure) and dovecot logs no error, despite having debug to yes in couple of places, it shows: auth: Debug: master in: USER 1 me(a)my.domain service=lda auth-worker(25343): Debug: passwd(me(a)my.domain): lookup auth-worker(25343): passwd(me(a)my.domain): unknown user auth: Debug: ldap(me(a)my.domain): user search: base=ou=People,dc=my,dc=domain scope=subtree filter=(&(objectClass=person)(uid=me)) fields= auth: Debug: ldap(me(a)my.domain): result: objectClass=top,top,top,top, ... here goes the whole lot of ldap atrribs, and at the end: unused. For passdb & userdb in the configs I only configure ldap backed, nothing else. Ldap works, I can query it without failling. I believe it's very simple set up but I must be wrong somewhere. pass_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%n)) pass_attrs = uid=user=%n,userPassword=password user_attrs = =home=/var/spool/mail/%d/%n,=mail=maildir:/var/spool/mail/%d/%n/Maildir:INDEX=/var/spool/mail/%d/%n:CONTROL=/var/spool/mail/%d/%n user_filter = (&(objectClass=person)(uid=%n)) Any suggestions very appreciated. thanks

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Proxy to more Servers
by Luca Bertoncello 23 Jun '15

23 Jun '15

Hi list! Finally I got the LDAP-Authentication work (it was a problem of the OU-Path... :( ). Now I can authenticate the user against the AD and forwarding the IMAP-Connection to the Exchange Server. Wow! My next problem: we have TWO ADs and TWO Exchange-Servers. The first AD has the users for the first Exchange, and the second AD for the second Exchange. I defined two files so: auth-ldap-OLDAD.conf.ext: passdb { driver = ldap args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-OLDAD.conf.ext } userdb { driver = ldap args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-OLDAD.conf.ext default_fields = imapc_user=%u imapc_password=%w imapc_ssl=imaps imapc_host=sphinx.company.local imapc_port=993 driver=imap uid=imapproxy gid=imapproxy home=/home/imapproxy } auth-ldap-NEWAD.conf.ext: passdb { driver = ldap args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-NEWAD.conf.ext } userdb { driver = ldap args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-NEWAD.conf.ext default_fields = imapc_user=%u imapc_password=%w imapc_ssl=imaps imapc_host=exchange01.ad.company.org imapc_port=993 driver=imap uid=imapproxy gid=imapproxy home=/home/imapproxy } Well, the authentication works as expected, but when a user of the second AD/Exchanges tries to log in, after a SUCCESSFULLY authentication can't speak with the new Exchange server... :( In the log of Dovecot I see: Jun 23 15:07:58 proxy01 dovecot: imap(chorris): Error: User initialization failed: Namespace '': Mailbox list driver imapc: missing imapc_host Jun 23 15:07:58 proxy01 dovecot: imap(chorris): Error: Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information. Could someone explain me, why the configuration for imapc_host in the second file are ignored? Thanks Luca Bertoncello (lucabert(a)lucabert.de)

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allowing shell users to change passwords
by dave＠661.org 23 Jun '15

23 Jun '15

Does anyone else here have a need to allow shell users to change their imap/pop3 passwords? I came up with a little thing that works similarly to regular passwd(1), dovepasswd, which can be found at https://github.com/DavidGriffith/dovepasswd. It does the job for me and I'd love for other people to take a look and give me some feedback. -- David Griffith dave(a)661.org A: Because it fouls 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 in e-mail?

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