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High level of pop3 popping causing server to become unresponsive
By: Root Kev
Hello all, We have put Dovecot 2.1.4 on several of our production servers (CentOS, on Dell R710, with 20GB memory, dual CPU Quad-core). We have a single instance of Dovecot running and currently have several instances of Popa3d. When there are…
8 May 17 2012
10:23
May 24 2012
16:35
Valid config for lda_mailbox_autosubscribe with dovecot 1.2?
By: Joan
Hi, Due to some reasons I've to support both dovecot 1.2 and dovecot 2.x, and I just found that the -s parameter I used to autosubscribe to sieve folders doesn't exist anymore in dovecot 2.x The problem arises because (AFAIK) in postfix's…
2 May 17 2012
05:12
May 24 2012
16:15
AUTH PLAIN fails while AUTH LOGIN succeeds with Exim -> Dovecot SASL auth
By: Sandro Tosi
Hello, we're trying to setup a platform with authenticated SMTP with exim and relying on dovecot as auth agent. We've read http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/EximAndDovecotSASL and so made the changes mentioned there, also setting auth_mechanisms =…
0 May 24 2012
10:29
May 24 2012
10:29
dsync migration with preserving pop3 uidl
By: Tomáš Herceg
Hi all, I'm trying to migrate messages from icewarp (merak) mailserver to dovecot via dsync, IMAP migration is looking fine, but I'm unable to migrate pop3 uidls from originating server, probably is something wrong with configuration, but I don't…
0 May 24 2012
05:18
May 24 2012
05:18
Dovecot auth process delays exiting if LDAPS passdb used
By: SATOH Fumiyasu
Hi, I'm using Dovecot 2.1.6 and LDAP server as a backend for Postfix SMTP-Auth (SASL) on Debian GNU/Linux (wheezy), Solaris 10 and AIX 6.1/7.1. If Dovecot passdb is configured with LDAP (no TLS/SSL), it is no problem. But if Dovecot passdb is…
2 May 23 2012
11:02
May 23 2012
11:23
Running sieve manually
By: Fredrik Staxeng
I would like use sieve to split up my saved mail into different folders. I have tried to find out how to do that, but failed. The IMAP server is dovecot 1.2.15 on ubuntu 11.04. The mail is stored in mbox folders. I have shell access.
1 May 23 2012
04:04
May 23 2012
04:11
Berkeley DB with Dovecot
By: Jerry
I have a friend who is preparing to set up a small Postfix/Dovecot mail system. There are only approximately 25 users. He wants to use Berkeley DB in a similar fashion to the way Postfix does. I told him I do not believe Dovecot supports that. I…
14 May 20 2012
06:21
May 23 2012
00:47
fts_lucene crashing
By: Joe Beaubien
I found this in mail.err. Anyone ever experience this? May 22 14:51:51 mba dovecot: imap(formulaire): Panic: file lucene-wrapper.cc: line 196: unreached May 22 14:51:51 mba dovecot: imap(formulaire): Error: Raw backtrace:…
1 May 22 2012
14:45
May 22 2012
16:26
sieve
By: upen
Hi, I'd like to keep all emails coming from alom-ale### @anydomain and not forward those but rest of the emails will be kept and forwarded as well. I put following in the .dovecot.sieve if header :contains "Sender" "alom-ale### @" { keep; if not…
2 May 22 2012
15:09
May 22 2012
15:46
Failed build with lucene plugin
By: Veniamin Gvozdikov
Hi, I've tryed build dovecot with the lucene plugin but I have this is output: /bin/sh ../../../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=compile c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../.. -I../../../src/lib -I../../../src/lib-mail -I../../../src/lib-index …
4 May 21 2012
14:20
May 22 2012
06:00
dovecot fts_lucene indexes not being updated
By: Joe Beaubien
Hi everyone, I have a dovecot 2.1.6 setup with fts_lucene. The lucene indexes get created/updated fine when I do a manual search thru telnet. However, if I run a webapp that uses the php::imap_search function, the index never gets…
11 May 19 2012
12:20
May 21 2012
14:03
per user compression level and mailbox format
By: Tomislav Mihalicek
Did anyone played arround with the mailbox (maildir, sdbox) format and compression level per user in the dovecot 2.1.6? Database backend is ldap Thanks
0 May 21 2012
06:18
May 21 2012
06:18
Public mailboxes
By: Frank Bonnet
hello I'm trying to setup a server with public mailboxes only but I cannot succeed. Anyone could help me a bit ? thank you here is the doveconf -n output # 2.1.6: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE-p3 amd64 auth_debug…
6 May 18 2012
07:32
May 21 2012
04:28
Active Directory : searches in root tree
By: nicolasfo
Hello everyone ! I'm trying to make a mail server with dovecot and postfix. Users will authenticate with Active Directory server. I've got an problem with Dovecot. To make the mail server, I'm using IredMail, and I used this tutorial : …
0 May 21 2012
03:49
May 21 2012
03:49
Only method=PLAIN
By: Manuel Fernández Panzuela
Hello I need to authenticate dovecot against openldap. OpenLdap's authentication method requires SHA. How must I set dovecot ? #### /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf hosts = ldap-server dn = cn=administrator,o=admin,o=ldap-server dnpass = xxxxx #…
7 May 16 2012
11:37
May 21 2012
03:39
Maildir filename has wrong S value
By: Wouter de Geus
Hello folks, This morning I tried to open an old archive mail folder using Mutt. However, while fetching headers it aborted. Checking the dovecot log gave me this: @400000004fb21996267d37d4 imap(benv): Error: Cached message size smaller than…
4 May 15 2012
05:25
May 20 2012
18:56
Maildir - Need script to delete old unread messages
By: Marc Perkel
Trying to clean out old undead messages from users to reduce disk space. Need a script that will recurse all the user directories and delete all unread email that is over 90 days old. Anyone have that?
2 May 19 2012
13:42
May 20 2012
09:56
Dovecot 2 fails after correct login
By: Frank Walter
Hello I installed dovecot 2.0.9 (and dovecot-mysql!) on my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS root-server to work together with Postfix 2.9.1-4 After some struggle, I got Postfix's auth working, using dovecot for smtp-authentification with mysql. But dovecot…
4 May 20 2012
06:12
May 20 2012
09:53
Very High Load on Dovecot 2 and Errors in mail.err.
By: Urban Loesch
Hi, I have a DELL PE R610 (32GB RAM 2x Six Core CPU and about 1,4 TB RAID 10) running with 20.000 Mailaccounts behind 2 Dovecot IMAP/POP3 Proxies on a Debian Lenny. The Server was running about 1 year without any problems. 15Min Load was between…
4 May 16 2012
01:59
May 20 2012
09:30
Convert from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8?
By: BjørnT Johansen
The server I am running Dovecot on is still using locale = ISO-8859-1 but I am thinking it is time to convert to UTF-8... Can I just use convmv to convert all the files in the mailboxes to UTF-8 or is there anything else I need to do? Do I need to…
2 May 20 2012
04:34
May 20 2012
08:23