On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 05:51:20PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
When I configured it to use hashed indexes to /etc/passwd (this was on
AIX which does it much better than Linux) the load average dropped to
between 0.5 and 4 (depending on the time of day), CPU usage was often
less than 100%, and
Hello Craig
On 19 Feb 2002, at 10:38, Craig Sanders wrote:
i'd love to convert it over to Maildir/ but haven't yet found any way
that doesn't involve many hours of downtime while converting the
mailboxes from mbox format to Maildir.
I did this a while back. It is possible with very little
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 07:40:32PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 05:51:20PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
When I configured it to use hashed indexes to /etc/passwd (this was on
AIX which does it much better than Linux) the load average dropped to
between 0.5 and 4
Good procedure!
- Original Message -
From: I. Forbes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 11:35 PM
Subject: Re: Upgrade a mail server
Hello Craig
On 19 Feb 2002, at 10:38, Craig Sanders wrote:
i'd love to convert it over to Maildir/ but haven't
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 10:38, Craig Sanders wrote:
I have a debian 2.1 email server, with sendmail as smtp server, and
qpopper as POP3 server. This box hosts several domains (about 100
different domains, using virtual hosting), with a total of 1300
users. Because the auth method is based
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 05:51:20PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
When I configured it to use hashed indexes to /etc/passwd (this was on
AIX which does it much better than Linux) the load average dropped to
between 0.5 and 4 (depending on the time of day), CPU usage was often
less than 100%, and
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 07:40:32PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 05:51:20PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
When I configured it to use hashed indexes to /etc/passwd (this was on
AIX which does it much better than Linux) the load average dropped to
between 0.5 and 4
Good procedure!
- Original Message -
From: I. Forbes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 11:35 PM
Subject: Re: Upgrade a mail server
Hello Craig
On 19 Feb 2002, at 10:38, Craig Sanders wrote:
i'd love to convert it over to Maildir
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 10:22:08PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 20:33, Javier Castillo Alcibar wrote:
I have a debian 2.1 email server, with sendmail as smtp server, and
qpopper as POP3 server. This box hosts several domains (about 100
different domains, using virtual
Craig Sanders wrote:
i'd love to convert it over to Maildir/ but haven't yet found any way
that doesn't involve many hours of downtime while converting the
mailboxes from mbox format to Maildir.
one of these days i'll have the time to sit down and work out a good
solution to the problem.
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 06:02:38PM -0600, Rich Puhek wrote:
Craig Sanders wrote:
i'd love to convert it over to Maildir/ but haven't yet found any way
that doesn't involve many hours of downtime while converting the
mailboxes from mbox format to Maildir.
one of these days i'll have
Craig Sanders wrote:
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 06:02:38PM -0600, Rich Puhek wrote:
Craig Sanders wrote:
i'd love to convert it over to Maildir/ but haven't yet found any way
that doesn't involve many hours of downtime while converting the
mailboxes from mbox format to Maildir.
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 09:21:16PM -0600, Rich Puhek wrote:
You didn't state if you're an ISP or another institution.
ISP.24/7 operation required.
more precisely: it's not my ISP, i'm the senior system admin at an ISP.
(*) it involves using semaphore files in each users homedir to
Craig Sanders wrote:
- configure postfix so that deferred_transports = local - this leaves
ALL local deliveries in the queue until i flush it manually while
still allowing the mail server to relay outbound mail to other
servers for my users.
or
- create Maildir/ and
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Craig Sanders wrote:
the particular mail server that needs conversion has about 6000 users.
most of whom have very small mailboxes. some have obscenely large
mailboxes (200MB or more). last time i checked there was a total of
about 6GB in /var/spool/mail
If you have a
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 10:38, Craig Sanders wrote:
I have a debian 2.1 email server, with sendmail as smtp server, and
qpopper as POP3 server. This box hosts several domains (about 100
different domains, using virtual hosting), with a total of 1300
users. Because the auth method is based
Title: RE: Upgrade a mail server
very interesing your comments.I am installing a box with postfix+courier-pop3+courier-imap. When woody gets stable state, I will upgrade my mailserver, anf of course, I will post you the results and problems ..
Thanks to all.
Un saludo
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 10:22:08PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 20:33, Javier Castillo Alcibar wrote:
I have a debian 2.1 email server, with sendmail as smtp server, and
qpopper as POP3 server. This box hosts several domains (about 100
different domains, using virtual
Craig Sanders wrote:
i'd love to convert it over to Maildir/ but haven't yet found any way
that doesn't involve many hours of downtime while converting the
mailboxes from mbox format to Maildir.
one of these days i'll have the time to sit down and work out a good
solution to the problem.
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 06:02:38PM -0600, Rich Puhek wrote:
Craig Sanders wrote:
i'd love to convert it over to Maildir/ but haven't yet found any way
that doesn't involve many hours of downtime while converting the
mailboxes from mbox format to Maildir.
one of these days i'll have the
Craig Sanders wrote:
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 06:02:38PM -0600, Rich Puhek wrote:
Craig Sanders wrote:
i'd love to convert it over to Maildir/ but haven't yet found any way
that doesn't involve many hours of downtime while converting the
mailboxes from mbox format to Maildir.
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 10:33:49AM +0100, Javier Castillo Alcibar wrote:
Hi all!!
I have a debian 2.1 email server, with sendmail as smtp server, and
qpopper as POP3 server. This box hosts several domains (about 100 different
domains, using virtual hosting), with a total of 1300
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 10:33:49AM +0100, Javier Castillo Alcibar wrote:
Hi all!!
I have a debian 2.1 email server, with sendmail as smtp server, and
qpopper as POP3 server. This box hosts several domains (about 100 different
domains, using virtual hosting), with a total of 1300
Title: Upgrade a mail server
Hi all!!
I have a debian 2.1 email server, with sendmail as smtp server, and qpopper as POP3 server. This box hosts several domains (about 100 different domains, using virtual hosting), with a total of 1300 users. Because the auth method is based on /etc
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 20:33, Javier Castillo Alcibar wrote:
I have a debian 2.1 email server, with sendmail as smtp server, and
qpopper as POP3 server. This box hosts several domains (about 100 different
domains, using virtual hosting), with a total of 1300 users. Because the
auth method
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Russell Coker wrote:
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 20:33, Javier Castillo Alcibar wrote:
I have a debian 2.1 email server, with sendmail as smtp server, and
qpopper as POP3 server. This box hosts several domains (about 100 different
domains, using virtual hosting), with a
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Russell Coker wrote:
This is becomming not scalable, and I want to start to use a mail
server with auth based on sql, using MySQL for example. I am thinking in
use a debian woody( I'll wait till woody becomes stable), with sendmail as
smtp server, but I am not
/etc/passwd should scale to 1300 users, using nscd should solve any
problems
there. But chances are that changing how you look up user names won't
make
any noticable difference in performance.
The best way of killing performance on a POP server is using
/var/spool/mail.
Use Maildir
Title: RE: Upgrade a mail server
Hi,
thanks to all of you for your good answers.
The reason to using MySQL is because is more easy to admin users and to implementing in the future web interfaces..
-Mensaje original-
De: Jason Lim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Enviado el
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 03:53, Alexander List wrote:
This is becomming not scalable, and I want to start to use a mail
server with auth based on sql, using MySQL for example. I am thinking
in use a debian woody( I'll wait till woody becomes stable), with
sendmail as smtp server, but I
Title: Upgrade a mail server
Hi all!!
I have a debian 2.1 email server, with sendmail as smtp server, and qpopper as POP3 server. This box hosts several domains (about 100 different domains, using virtual hosting), with a total of 1300 users. Because the auth method is based on /etc
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 20:33, Javier Castillo Alcibar wrote:
I have a debian 2.1 email server, with sendmail as smtp server, and
qpopper as POP3 server. This box hosts several domains (about 100 different
domains, using virtual hosting), with a total of 1300 users. Because the
auth method
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Russell Coker wrote:
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 20:33, Javier Castillo Alcibar wrote:
I have a debian 2.1 email server, with sendmail as smtp server, and
qpopper as POP3 server. This box hosts several domains (about 100 different
domains, using virtual hosting), with a
/etc/passwd should scale to 1300 users, using nscd should solve any
problems
there. But chances are that changing how you look up user names won't
make
any noticable difference in performance.
The best way of killing performance on a POP server is using
/var/spool/mail.
Use Maildir storage
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 03:53, Alexander List wrote:
This is becomming not scalable, and I want to start to use a mail
server with auth based on sql, using MySQL for example. I am thinking
in use a debian woody( I'll wait till woody becomes stable), with
sendmail as smtp server, but I am
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