Re: [vchkpw] NFS / Disk Access / Load Concerns on Vpopmail cluster

2004-07-06 Thread Eric Ziegast
What we're seeing is that our network and RAID 5 IDE-based disk array on our central mail store server is not able to keep up with the 'client' servers doing the POP3, IMAP, Webmail, and SMTP legwork. I've found an interesting bottleneck with webmail. When people use POP or IMAP clients

[vchkpw] Delete accounts in mysql

2004-07-06 Thread David Sedeño Fernández
Hi, I run vpopmail with mysql backend, and have a web front-end to admin stuff. The creation and drop of accounts works accessing the mysql table. The creation of accounts works ok, but when I delete a user in the mysql table and create it again, it can't log in. Imap tells login failed but

Re: [vchkpw] SATA NAS for vpop cluster

2004-07-06 Thread Sean Plaice
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:16:02 -0700, Jay Tortorelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll chime in a say that I have had great success setting up Qmail/Vpopmail/etc that stores on an nfs mount from a two machine mirror using drbd/heartbeat to provide mirroring and failover. http://www.drbd.org/

Re: [vchkpw] RBLs

2004-07-06 Thread Eduardo M. Bragatto
Jeremy Kitchen wrote: On Monday 05 July 2004 08:44 pm, Eduardo M. Bragatto wrote: What happens in the case that more than one RBL has the same blocked address? Which one actually blocks the smtp session? The one that answers first, or rblsmtpd waits until one to respond, before asking to

Re: [vchkpw] RBLs

2004-07-06 Thread Paul Theodoropoulos
At 07:14 AM 7/6/2004, Eduardo M. Bragatto wrote: Jeremy Kitchen wrote: On Monday 05 July 2004 08:44 pm, Eduardo M. Bragatto wrote: What happens in the case that more than one RBL has the same blocked address? Which one actually blocks the smtp session? The one that answers first, or

Re: [vchkpw] NFS / Disk Access / Load Concerns on Vpopmail cluster

2004-07-06 Thread Rainer Duffner
Eric Ziegast wrote: What we're seeing is that our network and RAID 5 IDE-based disk array on our central mail store server is not able to keep up with the 'client' servers doing the POP3, IMAP, Webmail, and SMTP legwork. I've found an interesting bottleneck with webmail. When people use POP or

Re: [vchkpw] NFS / Disk Access / Load Concerns on Vpopmail cluster

2004-07-06 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before we take this costly step, what have you noticed for user / system loads before you start hitting the limits of your hardware? Should we be having these issues with about 15,000 email users and 5 front-end 'work' servers? Well, you're making

Re: [vchkpw] NFS / Disk Access / Load Concerns on Vpopmail cluster

2004-07-06 Thread Rick Widmer
Rainer Duffner wrote: Eric Ziegast wrote: What we're seeing is that our network and RAID 5 IDE-based disk array on our central mail store server is not able to keep up with the 'client' servers doing the POP3, IMAP, Webmail, and SMTP legwork. I've found an interesting bottleneck with webmail.

Re: [vchkpw] NFS / Disk Access / Load Concerns on Vpopmail cluster

2004-07-06 Thread Rick Widmer
Charles Sprickman wrote: On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -vpopmaild will be nice - no need to have webmail on the same box vpopmaild has nothing to do with webmail, although I guess you could use it to retrieve mail through the back door. I'd suggest IMAP or POP3 based webmail

Re: [vchkpw] NFS / Disk Access / Load Concerns on Vpopmail cluster

2004-07-06 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Jeremy Kitchen wrote: Also, on top of that, I would consider disabling auth logging as it performs an insert/update upon every authentication which, no matter what will go back to your central mysql server, and if you have mysql being replicated, will be replicated to the

Re: [vchkpw] NFS / Disk Access / Load Concerns on Vpopmail cluster

2004-07-06 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Eric Ziegast wrote: With webmail, the session state is not saved nor cached, so with each new request, the mailbox can be rescanned. A relatively modest webmail application might only rescan all headers and show subject lines. A complex application might scan all

Re: [vchkpw] NFS / Disk Access / Load Concerns on Vpopmail cluster

2004-07-06 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Rick Widmer wrote: Charles Sprickman wrote: On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -vpopmaild will be nice - no need to have webmail on the same box vpopmaild has nothing to do with webmail, although I guess you could use it to retrieve mail through the back

[vchkpw] chkuser patch

2004-07-06 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi, I believe there was some discussion about this some time ago, but recent events have made me think of this again... The standard chkuser patch that vpopmail uses (see Bill Shupp's update to the original: http://www.shupp.org/patches/chkuser-0.6.mysql.patch) has some rather nasty behaviours.

Re: [vchkpw] chkuser patch

2004-07-06 Thread Rick Widmer
Charles Sprickman wrote: I'm also wondering if there are any plans for the vpopmail stuff to support talking to multiple databases; ie: if no answer or timeout on one, hit a slave that's replicating off the master. I don't see anything happening with multiple databases beyond specifying a read