Re: [courier-users] Kolab article.

2007-03-14 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC

On Mar 9, 2007, at 8:02 AM, Michelle Konzack wrote:

 Am 2007-03-04 12:54:17, schrieb Lisa Muir:
 Courier-IMAP uses the Maildir format, but it does not scale into the
 thousands of users, or the tens of thousands of messages per folder.
 Trust me, I've tried.

 Does this statement hold up in practice? I'd have thought not...

 No, I know several ISP's using exim as MTA and courier as IMAP.

I use courier-imap and exim.  Maildir has no problems with 10s of  
thousands of mail messages in an account.  I don't have a ton of  
accounts on the system, maybe 100, but Maildir is not the limitation.

And this is on FreeBSD with ufs2 as well as some nfs mounted stuff  
from a Solaris ZFS server (some accounts are on local ufs2 and some  
are nfs mounted)

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Re: [courier-users] Kolab article.

2007-03-09 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-04 12:54:17, schrieb Lisa Muir:
 Courier-IMAP uses the Maildir format, but it does not scale into the
 thousands of users, or the tens of thousands of messages per folder.
 Trust me, I've tried.
 
 Does this statement hold up in practice? I'd have thought not...

No, I know several ISP's using exim as MTA and courier as IMAP.

My ISP http://www.freenet.de/ has around 5 million E-Mails hosted
and now run over 90 mbox-Servers which mean, arround 55.000 mailboxes
per Server.  Since you can have a free email (20 MB storage), and two
commercial accounts (2.5 GByte as me, or unlimited :-))  ) you can
calculate a bit.

My own account linux4michelle hold currently ober 120.000 messages
and I use it as backup for my very importand messages @home.

I run for the french GOV the Courier-Suite (MTA+IMAP) with over 17.000
users where some user have over 2 million messages in there account...

My own Courier @home holds currently 7.43 million messages since I have
a very long mailinglist history... (over 180 Mailinglists and 11 years).

I found that courier handel this times better then cyrus or others.

And for the filesystem I use sucessfuly since over 5 years ext3
because reiserfs had and has real problems with 500.000.000 inodes
(a hale Miliarde) per Raid-5 (I have currently 3) even it claims to
be better then ext3.

Greetings
Michelle Konzack
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Re: [courier-users] Kolab article.

2007-03-07 Thread Pawel Tecza
Otto Solares [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:55:25AM +0100, Pawel Tecza wrote:
 Is your filesystem mounted via NFS?  What's the biggest number
 of files in your user's folder?  Do you know how long he has
 to wait to open that folder, for example in your webmail?
 Did you tried also another journalling filesystems, for example
 Reiser4 or JFS?

 We have both aproaches, NFS and direct.
 We have tell courier to limit messages to 16M.
 We have users which never delete mail (we force the INBOX
 to have messages not older than 1 year, 1 day for Trash)
 and I have seen like 15,000+ files in some folders for users
 who never delete mail.

Hello Otto,

Thanks a lot for the detailed answer!

I guess that deleting old messages in your system is a cron job.
Am I right?  When you runs that job?  What load do you have then?

 The speed is directly proportional to the number of files
 in the Maildir, specially when IMAP threadsort and the
 likes are enabled.  We have IMP v3 and v4 and v4 is 10x
 slower than v3 when accessing large maildirs with equivalent
 settings, so client matters too.

I have never used IMP and I don't know too much about it.
I'm curious what time your user needs to open his folder
with 15,000+ messages?  Has he to wait a few seconds or rather
a few minutes? :)

 We tried ext3 and reiserfs and after some benchmarks and
 torture testing decided for XFS, 2.5 years ago ext3 have some
 problems with heavy concurrency and some kind of superblock
 mismatchs after long usage, I must say all those problems
 no longer are the case for recent 2.6 kernels.

Thank you for the info!  I need to do my own benchmarks now :)

Best regards,

Pawel

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Re: [courier-users] Kolab article.

2007-03-07 Thread Otto Solares
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:36:46AM +0100, Pawel Tecza wrote:
 I guess that deleting old messages in your system is a cron job.
 Am I right?  When you runs that job?  What load do you have then?

We used the IMAP_EMPTYTRASH courier's feature to enforce our
policy at login/logout time.  That takes care for the active
users, another cron job monthly (last sunday) takes care for
the rest, it exists a performance penalty doing a stat call
for every file on login/logout time but XFS + hw raid excell
in that area.  For the cron job the load is not a problem as
that can be minimized too (in our case) with _good_ hardware
raid storage.

 I have never used IMP and I don't know too much about it.
 I'm curious what time your user needs to open his folder
 with 15,000+ messages?  Has he to wait a few seconds or rather
 a few minutes? :)

I can't tell as I don't know but I assume a lot of minutes
for that obscene quantity ;)

-otto

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Re: [courier-users] Kolab article.

2007-03-06 Thread Frederik Dannemare
On Monday 05 March 2007 18:27, Otto Solares wrote:
 On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:42:40PM +0100, Pawel Tecza wrote:
  Sam Varshavchik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
   Pawel Tecza writes:
[...]
 Pawel:

 We have 60,000+ Maildirs with XFS.

Yeah, I would probably go with XFS as well. At my former workplace, we 
had more than 32000 customer mail boxes for a particular mail domain 
and with a typical mail directory structure (e.g. example.org/peter, 
example.org/john, example.org/jane, etc), one will run into a subdir 
limitation with ext3.

For example, try this on an ext3 filesystem:

mkdir /tmp/foo; cd /tmp/foo; for x in $(seq 1 32005); do mkdir $x; done

You should see output similar to this:

mkdir: cannot create directory `31999': Too many links
mkdir: cannot create directory `32000': Too many links
mkdir: cannot create directory `32001': Too many links
mkdir: cannot create directory `32002': Too many links
mkdir: cannot create directory `32003': Too many links
mkdir: cannot create directory `32004': Too many links
mkdir: cannot create directory `32005': Too many links

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Re: [courier-users] Kolab article.

2007-03-06 Thread Pawel Tecza
Frederik Dannemare [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 On Monday 05 March 2007 18:27, Otto Solares wrote:
 On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:42:40PM +0100, Pawel Tecza wrote:
  Sam Varshavchik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
   Pawel Tecza writes:
 [...]
 Pawel:

 We have 60,000+ Maildirs with XFS.

 Yeah, I would probably go with XFS as well. At my former workplace, we 
 had more than 32000 customer mail boxes for a particular mail domain 
 and with a typical mail directory structure (e.g. example.org/peter, 
 example.org/john, example.org/jane, etc), one will run into a subdir 
 limitation with ext3.

Hi Frederik,

What's the subdir limitation for XFS?  Isn't the same like for ext3?

You can easy work-around a problem with the limitation adding subdirs
for all your domains, e.g. example.org/001/peter, example.org/002/john,
example.org/003/jane, etc.

I agree that it seems a little more complicated, but if you store
a path to users Maildir in a data base, that it's no problem.

Have a nice day,

Pawel

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Re: [courier-users] Kolab article.

2007-03-06 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
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Pawel Tecza wrote:
 You can easy work-around a problem with the limitation adding subdirs
 for all your domains, e.g. example.org/001/peter, example.org/002/john,
 example.org/003/jane, etc.

Better yet:

$DOMAIN/$USERNAME[0]/$USERNAME

So:

example.com/u/user
example.com/b/buanzo
example.com/w/willy

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Re: [courier-users] Kolab article.

2007-03-06 Thread Pawel Tecza
Otto Solares [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:42:40PM +0100, Pawel Tecza wrote:
[...]
 So, it's a question to the admins of big mail systems with
 tens of thousands of users.  What filesystem do you use?
 
 Have a nice day,
 
 Pawel

 Pawel:

 We have 60,000+ Maildirs with XFS.

Hello Otto,

Thank you very much for your reply!

Is your filesystem mounted via NFS?  What's the biggest number
of files in your user's folder?  Do you know how long he has
to wait to open that folder, for example in your webmail?
Did you tried also another journalling filesystems, for example
Reiser4 or JFS?

My best regards,

Pawel

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Re: [courier-users] Kolab article.

2007-03-06 Thread Frederik Dannemare
On Tuesday 06 March 2007 12:02, Pawel Tecza wrote:
 Frederik Dannemare [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
  Yeah, I would probably go with XFS as well. At my former workplace,
  we had more than 32000 customer mail boxes for a particular mail
  domain and with a typical mail directory structure (e.g.
  example.org/peter, example.org/john, example.org/jane, etc), one
  will run into a subdir limitation with ext3.

 What's the subdir limitation for XFS?  Isn't the same like for ext3?

It is higher, but I'm not sure how high, though. Just tested with 64000 
subdirs on an XFS filesystem and it didn't complain.

 You can easy work-around a problem with the limitation adding subdirs
 for all your domains, e.g. example.org/001/peter,
 example.org/002/john, example.org/003/jane, etc.

 I agree that it seems a little more complicated, but if you store
 a path to users Maildir in a data base, that it's no problem.

True.

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Re: [courier-users] Kolab article.

2007-03-06 Thread Otto Solares
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:55:25AM +0100, Pawel Tecza wrote:
 Is your filesystem mounted via NFS?  What's the biggest number
 of files in your user's folder?  Do you know how long he has
 to wait to open that folder, for example in your webmail?
 Did you tried also another journalling filesystems, for example
 Reiser4 or JFS?

We have both aproaches, NFS and direct.
We have tell courier to limit messages to 16M.
We have users which never delete mail (we force the INBOX
to have messages not older than 1 year, 1 day for Trash)
and I have seen like 15,000+ files in some folders for users
who never delete mail.

The speed is directly proportional to the number of files
in the Maildir, specially when IMAP threadsort and the
likes are enabled.  We have IMP v3 and v4 and v4 is 10x
slower than v3 when accessing large maildirs with equivalent
settings, so client matters too.

We tried ext3 and reiserfs and after some benchmarks and
torture testing decided for XFS, 2.5 years ago ext3 have some
problems with heavy concurrency and some kind of superblock
mismatchs after long usage, I must say all those problems
no longer are the case for recent 2.6 kernels.

-otto

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Re: [courier-users] Kolab article.

2007-03-05 Thread Pawel Tecza
Sam Varshavchik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
 As far as tens of thousands of messages per folder, the server itself
 won't have any issues, it's the underlying filesystem.  If your
 filesystem falls apart when there are tens of thousands of messages in
 a folder, that's that. There are filesystem that should easily handle
 hundreds of thousands of messages.

Hello Sam,

What modern filesystem for Maildir storage could you recommend me?

My best regards,

Pawel

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Re: [courier-users] Kolab article.

2007-03-05 Thread Sam Varshavchik

Pawel Tecza writes:


Sam Varshavchik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]

As far as tens of thousands of messages per folder, the server itself
won't have any issues, it's the underlying filesystem.  If your
filesystem falls apart when there are tens of thousands of messages in
a folder, that's that. There are filesystem that should easily handle
hundreds of thousands of messages.


Hello Sam,

What modern filesystem for Maildir storage could you recommend me?


I don't routinely have folders with tens of thousands of messages.  Except 
for my Trash folder, which usually has 5,000+ messages waiting to be 
expunged.  ext3 appears to handle it just fine, but I have not done any 
benchmarks.





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Re: [courier-users] Kolab article.

2007-03-05 Thread Pawel Tecza
Sam Varshavchik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Pawel Tecza writes:
[...]
 What modern filesystem for Maildir storage could you recommend me?

 I don't routinely have folders with tens of thousands of messages.
 Except for my Trash folder, which usually has 5,000+ messages waiting
 to be expunged.  ext3 appears to handle it just fine, but I have not
 done any benchmarks.

OK, thanks for the answer!

So, it's a question to the admins of big mail systems with
tens of thousands of users.  What filesystem do you use?

Have a nice day,

Pawel

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Re: [courier-users] Kolab article.

2007-03-05 Thread Lisa Muir
On 3/5/07, Pawel Tecza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 So, it's a question to the admins of big mail systems with
 tens of thousands of users.  What filesystem do you use?

Jay Lee already answered that question when he wrote:

 Since I subscribe to some heavy traffic lists like Fedora, Ubuntu and LKML
 I sure do (this is a RHEL4 x86_64, dual Opteron, 6gb ram , hardware RAID5,
 ext3 based Maildirs).  I've gotten up to 50k messages before without issue
 except that I had to disable FAM support.  It seems FAM and/or Gamin in
 conjunction with dnotify will max out around 5k messages.  It dies very
 badly too, it starts chewing up 100% of the CPU and does nothing until I
 reset imapd.

So, ext3 and systems administration it is.

Thank you to both Sam and Jay for your responses. My courier choice
was made purely on technical analysis, but with so much FUD out there
it does make one ask questions occassionally.

Thanks,

Lisa.

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Re: [courier-users] Kolab article.

2007-03-05 Thread Otto Solares
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:42:40PM +0100, Pawel Tecza wrote:
 Sam Varshavchik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
  Pawel Tecza writes:
 [...]
  What modern filesystem for Maildir storage could you recommend me?
 
  I don't routinely have folders with tens of thousands of messages.
  Except for my Trash folder, which usually has 5,000+ messages waiting
  to be expunged.  ext3 appears to handle it just fine, but I have not
  done any benchmarks.
 
 OK, thanks for the answer!
 
 So, it's a question to the admins of big mail systems with
 tens of thousands of users.  What filesystem do you use?
 
 Have a nice day,
 
 Pawel

Pawel:

We have 60,000+ Maildirs with XFS.

-otto

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[courier-users] Kolab article.

2007-03-04 Thread Lisa Muir
Hi Guys,

Just been looking at kolab www.kolab.org, and was researching to see
if there was any mention on the web of it having been made work with
courier or was it tightly integrated with cyrus at a level beyone
pop/imap protocol levels.

This link came up:
http://dot.kde.org/1106909457/

and a quote from it:

Courier-IMAP uses the Maildir format, but it does not scale into the
thousands of users, or the tens of thousands of messages per folder.
Trust me, I've tried.

Does this statement hold up in practice? I'd have thought not...

Lisa.

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Re: [courier-users] Kolab article.

2007-03-04 Thread Sam Varshavchik

Lisa Muir writes:


Hi Guys,

Just been looking at kolab www.kolab.org, and was researching to see
if there was any mention on the web of it having been made work with
courier or was it tightly integrated with cyrus at a level beyone
pop/imap protocol levels.

This link came up:
http://dot.kde.org/1106909457/

and a quote from it:

Courier-IMAP uses the Maildir format, but it does not scale into the
thousands of users, or the tens of thousands of messages per folder.
Trust me, I've tried.

Does this statement hold up in practice? I'd have thought not...


Of course not.  My ISP uses Courier-IMAP to provide IMAP service for tens of 
thousands of users.  Couldn't get a definitive answer on their customer 
count, but a mailing list broker claims to own 22,000+ customer E-mail 
addresses.


As far as tens of thousands of messages per folder, the server itself won't 
have any issues, it's the underlying filesystem.  If your filesystem falls 
apart when there are tens of thousands of messages in a folder, that's that. 
There are filesystem that should easily handle hundreds of thousands of 
messages.





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Re: [courier-users] Kolab article.

2007-03-04 Thread Lisa Muir
On 3/4/07, Sam Varshavchik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Of course not.  My ISP uses Courier-IMAP to provide IMAP service for tens of
 thousands of users.  Couldn't get a definitive answer on their customer
 count, but a mailing list broker claims to own 22,000+ customer E-mail
 addresses.

Thanks, thats all I need to hear.

 As far as tens of thousands of messages per folder, the server itself won't
 have any issues, it's the underlying filesystem.  If your filesystem falls
 apart when there are tens of thousands of messages in a folder, that's that.
 There are filesystem that should easily handle hundreds of thousands of
 messages.

Yeah, that kind of thing is just plain dumb, but in practice doesn't
work on Cyrus anyway. My last email server setup was actually a cyrus
imap server which went funny with more than 1000 messages in a folder,
which the sent boxes tended to build after a while.

Thanks,

Lisa.

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Re: [courier-users] Kolab article.

2007-03-04 Thread Sergiy Zhuk
hi

On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Sam Varshavchik wrote:

 Of course not.  My ISP uses Courier-IMAP to provide IMAP service for tens
 of thousands of users.  Couldn't get a definitive answer on their customer

I can attest to that.
Also, courier is much easier to scale since as long as you're using a common
user database, you can add as many front-end machines as you need.
And you can also add multiple backends (e.g. nfs servers) without much
hassle, since user home directory location is also kept in the database and
locking (in rare cases where it's needed with Maildir) is supported natively
by courier.
Compare that with cyrus, which doesn't officially support nfs storage
altogether because it's inefficient (netapp, anyone?) and locking is
hard.
So they handle clustering by forwarding requests to the machine where
user account is located or by providing a reference to that machine to avoid
forwarding, which is supported only in Mulberry (I bet a lot of you didn't
even hear that such mail client exists).
BTW, you can do the same forwarding trick with courier, but you
don't need to unless you decide to use local storage on every imap front-end
box.

 As far as tens of thousands of messages per folder, the server itself won't
 have any issues, it's the underlying filesystem.  If your filesystem falls
 apart when there are tens of thousands of messages in a folder, that's that.
 There are filesystem that should easily handle hundreds of thousands of
 messages.

There's also a practical limit for mail clients.
They tend to fall apart much earlier than the server filesystem does.
You can still work with about 50,000 msgs in a single folder, but the
practical limit seems to be around 30,000 or less on a modern client
machine.

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rgds,
serge

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