On Mon, March 23, 2009 1:46 pm, Karl Pearson wrote:
>
> On Mon, March 23, 2009 4:56 am, Alan in Toronto wrote:
>> On Mon, March 23, 2009 12:55 am, Karl Pearson wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, March 22, 2009 10:38 pm, Alan in Toronto wrote:
>>>> On Sat, March 21, 2009 1:03 am, Karl Pearson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, March 20, 2009 10:28 pm, Alan in Toronto wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, March 21, 2009 12:17 am, Paul Lesniewski wrote:
>>>>>>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Alan in Toronto
>
> <more stuff deleted>
>
<snip>
>>>> # Prefix required to access this namespace. This needs to be
>>>> different for
>>>> # all namespaces. For example "Public/".
>>>> prefix = INBOX.
>>>
>>> That's the setting right there. As Paul said, it's a good thing to
>>> leave
>>> it alone, since it's working. Unless you are very confident that
>>> 'fixing' it won't break anything else.
>>
>>
>> Ah, I thought so (due to your earlier pointing me in that direction.)
>> So, in a
>> normal/standard vanilla Dovecot that value would be empty?
>
> I'm not using the namespace private section, which means it's
> 'defaulted' to compile values. Also, I've not added (changed) any
> settings in the entire "Mailbox locations and namespaces" section. I'm
> on Dovecot version 1.0.15, which is one of the later releases.
>
>>
>> cPanel releases used to include Courier as default. Now they use Dovecot
>> (although I
>> could switch to Courier by selecting it on one of the control panel web
>> interface
>> pages which would then do some backend change to config.) Perhaps they
>> kept the old
>> prefix value to avoid breaking users' use of things like SquirrelMail.
>> Or, perhaps
>> the developers just forgot to change it, which also happens in cPanel
>> upgrades.
>
>
> I suspect they use Dovecot because it's faster than Courier, but don't
> know for sure. I found it to be at least 100 times faster than UW-IMAP
> when I started using it. I had to download it and compile it from source
> when I started, but that's been a few years ago on an older OS and
> system no longer used.
>>
>>> To find text in a file, use grep, i.e:
>>>
>>> grep INBOX /etc/dovecot.conf
>>>
>>> or, to find a given word or phrase within a group of files, you could
>>> do:
>>>
>>> FNDSTR="prefix = INBOX"
>>> grep $FNDSTR *
>>>
>>> Linux uses the same 'wildcards' as DOS did (32/64 bit MS OSes).
>>>
>>> You can also use a find command to parse through directories
>>> recursively:
>>>
>>> find . -exec grep $FNDSTR {} \; -print
>>>
>>> which will do the grep against every file in the current directory (.)
>>> and recurse through all the subdirectories underneath.
>>>
>>> </lesson>
>>
>> LOL. Thanks for the lesson. I appreciate it. I'm a newbie to SSH, so
>> your lesson
>> will be saved along with other commands that I have learned. I've found
>> a few pages
>> with some commands, but nothing comprehensive. A little comes back from
>> old lizard
>> memory from when I used to work on Solaris years ago.
>>
>> Thanks very much!
>
>
> FYI, you could visit my Unix command page at
> http://ourldsfamily.com/mypapers/ ...
>
> Karl
Thanks!
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