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Patrick Westenberg | 1 Apr 2012 01:18
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Re: Dovecot stones

Timo Sirainen schrieb:

> A small Dovecot stone can be bought for 10 euros, a medium sized stone for 100 euros and a large stone for 500
euros.  Each large stone can usually handle around 1000-2000 users before you need to buy more.  If you have
millions of users we'll need to find you a larger rock from my parents' backyard.  There are only a limited
number of such rocks available (we disposed of most of them to our neighbors' yards years ago), so their
prices need to be negotiated in advance.

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Patrick Westenberg | 1 Apr 2012 01:21
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Re: Hints for a NFS-Setup

Patrick Westenberg schrieb:
> Nick Warr schrieb:
>
>> I think some of the new Dovecot (director?) software is user aware, but
>> I don't know if it's quite ready for production.
>
> Yes, with director it should be something like that:
>
> MTA --(lmtp)--\ /--(lmtp)--> backend1 --\
> -- director -- -- NFS
> MTA --(lmtp)--/ \--(lmtp)--> backend2 --/
>
>
> IMAP-User --> frontend1 --\ /--(imap)--> backend1 --\
> -- director -- -- NFS
> IMAP-User --> frontend2 --/ \--(imap)--> backend2 --/
>
>
> So what happens if user1 <at> example.tld receives a mail?
>
> - The director decides to connect to backend1 which in turn stores
> the mail on the NFS share and the index file locally?
>
> - Then, user1 <at> example.tld connects to one of the frontends. Does the
> director know that, earlier, this user received a mail and proxies him
> to backend1 too?

Timo?
This post is from March, right before you introduced the stones :D
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Robert Schetterer | 1 Apr 2012 08:43

Re: Dovecot stones

Am 31.03.2012 23:28, schrieb Timo Sirainen:
> For the last few days I've been thinking about my company and what it really should do, and as much as the
current plan seems reasonable, I think in good conscience I really can't help but to bring up an
alternative plan:
> 
> The support for Dovecot is quite good already, but wouldn't it be better if it was GUARANTEED that your
email server was ALWAYS working with zero downtime or other problems?  After some thinking, planning and
consulting with my spiritual guides I realized I really should just go ahead and do it:
> 
> From now on you can buy blessed Dovecot stones (http://www.dovecot.org/tmp/stone1.jpg), which are
guaranteed to keep your email server running.  I don't think there's really any further reason for me to
provide commercial support.  Probably the whole Dovecot mailing list will be pretty much useless after
this as well, so I might as well stop posting there.  If you have any problems, you'll just buy a Dovecot stone
and the problem will go away.  If for any reason that doesn't work, it means that your problem is more
difficult than most and you need to buy a few more stones.  Please remember that each shipment may take up to 3
weeks to reach you, so get your stones early and in sufficient quantities.
> 
> A small email server will be happy enough with a single small Dovecot stone, but the more users you have the
more stones you'll likely need.  This is because most people are rather unhappy with their lives, and they
project their negative energies towards their surroundings, including their email servers.  To
overcome this negative energy you need to have a counterbalancing positive energy, which the Dovecot
stones will provide you.
> 
> The Dovecot stones are hand painted from the finest materials available to the sister of the author of
Dovecot that she could find in the local shops. Each stone contains such love and dedication towards the
well being of Dovecot that you will shed tears when you lay your eyes upon their physical being.  The images
provided here unfortunately don't do justice to them.
> 
> http://www.dovecot.org/tmp/stone2.jpg - This is how i keep my home desktop running all day every day.  I
have NEVER broken a single hard drive in my life.  I don't even bother to keep backups, because I KNOW it is
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Tom Fernandes | 1 Apr 2012 09:28
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namespace hierarchy

Hi,

I'm  migrating from Courier to Dovecot and would like to keep the original 
namespace and add two new ones on the new server.

There's only one namespace in Courier which is "INBOX." . The seperator is "."

In the new server I would like to have 3 namespaces (private, public, shared) 
and use "/" as separator. Is it possible to keep "INBOX." for private, so that 
the users mailboxes appear below the Inbox, but have public and shared on the 
same hierarchy-level like the Inbox?

When I set prefix to "INBOX/" for private I get the users mailboxes below the 
Inbox, like I have it Courier now. But then at least the public, probably also 
the shared namespace doesn't work any more. I get "unknown subscription 
namespace" when trying to subscribe to some of the folders.

My current configuration is:
namespace:
  type: private
  separator: /
  inbox: yes
  list: yes
  subscriptions: yes
namespace:
  type: public
  separator: /
  prefix: public/
  location: maildir:/var/vmail/example.com/public
  list: yes
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Michael Grimm | 1 Apr 2012 09:36
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Re: Dovecot stones

Nice ;-)

On 31.03.2012, at 23:28, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> A small Dovecot stone can be bought for 10 euros, a medium sized stone for 100 euros and a large stone for 500
euros.  Each large stone can usually handle around 1000-2000 users before you need to buy more.  If you have
millions of users we'll need to find you a larger rock from my parents' backyard.  There are only a limited
number of such rocks available (we disposed of most of them to our neighbors' yards years ago), so their
prices need to be negotiated in advance.

And sorry for the previous Mail. Mail.app from Apple isn't the best program ;-)

Regards, Michael
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Marcin Mirosław | 1 Apr 2012 11:13
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Re: Dovecot stones

W dniu 2012-03-31 23:28, Timo Sirainen pisze:
> For the last few days I've been thinking about my company and what it really should do, and as much as the
current plan seems reasonable, I think in good conscience I really can't help but to bring up an
alternative plan:
> 
> The support for Dovecot is quite good already, but wouldn't it be better if it was GUARANTEED that your
email server was ALWAYS working with zero downtime or other problems?  After some thinking, planning and
consulting with my spiritual guides I realized I really should just go ahead and do it:
> 
> From now on you can buy blessed Dovecot stones (http://www.dovecot.org/tmp/stone1.jpg), which are
guaranteed to keep your email server running.  I don't think there's really any further reason for me to
provide commercial support.  Probably the whole Dovecot mailing list will be pretty much useless after
this as well, so I might as well stop posting there.  If you have any problems, you'll just buy a Dovecot stone
and the problem will go away.  If for any reason that doesn't work, it means that your problem is more
difficult than most and you need to buy a few more stones.  Please remember that each shipment may take up to 3
weeks to reach you, so get your stones early and in sufficient quantities.
> 
> A small email server will be happy enough with a single small Dovecot stone, but the more users you have the
more stones you'll likely need.  This is because most people are rather unhappy with their lives, and they
project their negative energies towards their surroundings, including their email servers.  To
overcome this negative energy you need to have a counterbalancing positive energy, which the Dovecot
stones will provide you.
> 
> The Dovecot stones are hand painted from the finest materials available to the sister of the author of
Dovecot that she could find in the local shops. Each stone contains such love and dedication towards the
well being of Dovecot that you will shed tears when you lay your eyes upon their physical being.  The images
provided here unfortunately don't do justice to them.
> 
> http://www.dovecot.org/tmp/stone2.jpg - This is how i keep my home desktop running all day every day.  I
have NEVER broken a single hard drive in my life.  I don't even bother to keep backups, because I KNOW it is
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Patrick Domack | 1 Apr 2012 16:22

Re: Dovecot stones

Quoting Timo Sirainen <tss <at> iki.fi>:

> For the last few days I've been thinking about my company and what  
> it really should do, and as much as the current plan seems  
> reasonable, I think in good conscience I really can't help but to  
> bring up an alternative plan:
>
> The support for Dovecot is quite good already, but wouldn't it be  
> better if it was GUARANTEED that your email server was ALWAYS  
> working with zero downtime or other problems?  After some thinking,  
> planning and consulting with my spiritual guides I realized I really  
> should just go ahead and do it:
>
> From now on you can buy blessed Dovecot stones  
> (http://www.dovecot.org/tmp/stone1.jpg), which are guaranteed to  
> keep your email server running.  I don't think there's really any  
> further reason for me to provide commercial support.  Probably the  
> whole Dovecot mailing list will be pretty much useless after this as  
> well, so I might as well stop posting there.  If you have any  
> problems, you'll just buy a Dovecot stone and the problem will go  
> away.  If for any reason that doesn't work, it means that your  
> problem is more difficult than most and you need to buy a few more  
> stones.  Please remember that each shipment may take up to 3 weeks  
> to reach you, so get your stones early and in sufficient quantities.
>
> A small email server will be happy enough with a single small  
> Dovecot stone, but the more users you have the more stones you'll  
> likely need.  This is because most people are rather unhappy with  
> their lives, and they project their negative energies towards their  
> surroundings, including their email servers.  To overcome this
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Christian Rohmann | 1 Apr 2012 18:38
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Re: Dovecot stones

Hey all,

On 04/01/2012 11:13 AM, Marcin Mirosław wrote:
> I'm using dovecot on vps, how can i use dovecot stone? Is it enough to
> use photo of stone as boot splash or should i start dovecot with
> LD_PRELOAD="/path_to_photo.jpg"?

Valid questions, what about Dovecot vStones?

Apart from this practical issue, who is your marketing advisor? Timo in 
cloudy times like these, one needs product names that assure customers 
it's compatible to the Cloud:

I suggest something like:
  Dovecot CloudProtector Stone 2000 S
  Dovecot CloudProtector Stone 4500 GT
  Dovecot CloudProtector Stone 6900 GTX turbo

Also for such sheer value in less nightly calls on broken servers, you 
need to price the things higher. This will underline that the stones are 
of exceptional quality and energy.

Regards

Christian
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Robert Schetterer | 1 Apr 2012 19:51

Re: Dovecot stones

Am 01.04.2012 18:38, schrieb Christian Rohmann:
> Hey all,
> 
> On 04/01/2012 11:13 AM, Marcin Mirosław wrote:
>> I'm using dovecot on vps, how can i use dovecot stone? Is it enough to
>> use photo of stone as boot splash or should i start dovecot with
>> LD_PRELOAD="/path_to_photo.jpg"?
> 
> 
> Valid questions, what about Dovecot vStones?
> 
> Apart from this practical issue, who is your marketing advisor? Timo in
> cloudy times like these, one needs product names that assure customers
> it's compatible to the Cloud:
> 
> I suggest something like:
>  Dovecot CloudProtector Stone 2000 S
>  Dovecot CloudProtector Stone 4500 GT
>  Dovecot CloudProtector Stone 6900 GTX turbo
> 
> 
> Also for such sheer value in less nightly calls on broken servers, you
> need to price the things higher. This will underline that the stones are
> of exceptional quality and energy.
> 
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Christian
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Spyros Tsiolis | 1 Apr 2012 23:54
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Mail migration troubles

Hello all,

OK, I would really appreciate your help on this.
I managed to do a pretty straight-forward and flawless migration
on dovecot from one domain to another.

However, I have this nagging problem with most of the thunderbird
MTAs. When I try to delete some "test" messages I sent to make sure
that everything works, it comes back with the following message on
the bottom of the Thunderbird window :

"The current operation on InBox did not succeed. 
The mail server for account "Account <at> bloomingdomain.gr" 
responded [TRYCREATE] mailbox doesn't exist : Trash"

Now, I know it has to do something with automatically creating a 
trash folder. But don't know anything more.

Could someone shed some light on this ?

Dovecot v1.2.15 AFAIK
CentOS 5.5 x86 (32-bit)
other stuff

On Clients : Thunderbird v11.0.1 (XP Pro / 32-bit)

s.

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"I merely function as a channel that filters
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