tools
Good Morning, Any one using the cyrus-graphtools.1.0 in 2.1.1? Thanks! -Kiarna
Websieve SSL
Hi Folks! I am having a hard time getting Websieve to play nice with SSL. Any one have experience with this combination? Websieve seems happy vanilla, but is choking on the SSL part. have a Sun Solaris 8 server with : cyrus-imapd-2.1.1 openssl-0.9.6c websieve-0.61 IMAP-Admin-1.6.1 perlsieve-0.4.9 Net_SSLeay.pm-1.13 IO-Socket-SSL-0.80 perl, v5.6.1 built for sun4-solaris My SSL works on my regular server, with Websieve I have these websieve.conf: # default system ports of timsieved/imapd daemons $sieveport='2000'; #$imapport='143'; $imapport='993'; #your mail domain $maildomain='gsd.harvard.edu' ; #use SSL for server connections #requires IO::Socket::SSL, Net::SSLeay, OpenSSL $useimapSSL=1; $usesieveSSL=1; %server_hosts=( "mail.gsd.harvard.edu"=>['GSD MailServer','993','143','2000','gsd.harvard.edu','ssl_all'] ); The behavior is I get to the login screen okay enter everything and it hangs. Before I changed the websieve.conf imapport I would get an error the it could not connect. Any ideas where I did something wrong? Thank you for your time! -Kiarna
RE: Sieve woes, but closer maybe? + SHAMELESS BRIBE
Hi Mike,
I can relate to your despair, no pizza need apply if this helps.
1. have you tried WebSieve? Has a lot more out of the box preconfigured treats in it.
2. Did you compile cyrus with sieve support disabled accidentally?
3. do you have a straight up mail.log not just imap.log? a mail.debug line in
syslog.conf helps enormously for this.
-Original Message-
From: Mike Grommet [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 2:26 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Sieve woes, but closer maybe? + SHAMELESS BRIBE
I'm really at the end of my rope here, so, I'm
offering free pizza to the person who can figure out my pain and make it all
better...
I'll order a large pizza with the toppings of your choice, from the delivery
place of your choosing, and have it delivered to you at home / offfice /
wherever :)
I'm completely serious here :) Who says theres no such thing as a free
lunch (Ok, I believe it was Heinlien)?
Ok, I'm really stumped when it comes to sieve configuration with sendmail...
I can telnet to the sieve port just fine. Cyrus seems to perform just
dandy. Sieve scritps are happily
being placed into /usr/sieve/whatever
Is there other information I can supply? I'm seeing really weird behavior
from 2 different sieve scripts, a reject script and a vacation script
I found this reject examle script in the ether... Its getting on the
server, and is activated.
require "fileinto";
require "reject";
if header :contains "Subject" "Shockwave"
{reject "Possible virus? Check your system!";}
my imap log looks like this:
--
Feb 21 01:29:26 sammonsmail master[13201]: about to exec
/usr/cyrus/bin/lmtpd
Feb 21 01:29:26 sammonsmail service-lmtpunix[13201]: executed
Feb 21 01:29:26 sammonsmail lmtpd[13201]: accepted connection
Feb 21 01:29:26 sammonsmail lmtpd[13201]: lmtp connection preauth'd as
postman
Feb 21 01:29:27 sammonsmail master[13206]: about to exec
/usr/cyrus/bin/lmtpd
Feb 21 01:29:27 sammonsmail service-lmtpunix[13206]: executed
Feb 21 01:29:27 sammonsmail lmtpd[13201]: accepted connection
Feb 21 01:29:27 sammonsmail lmtpd[13201]: lmtp connection preauth'd as
postman
Feb 21 01:29:27 sammonsmail lmtpd[13206]: accepted connection
Feb 21 01:29:27 sammonsmail lmtpd[13206]: lmtp connection preauth'd as
postman
Feb 21 01:29:28 sammonsmail lmtpd[13201]: accepted connection
Feb 21 01:29:28 sammonsmail lmtpd[13201]: lmtp connection preauth'd as
postman
My mail log looks like this when one of these messges goes in::
-
Feb 21 01:40:35 sammonsmail sendmail[13277]: g1L6eYUG013277: from=,
size=632, class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<013f01c1baa5$021b5380$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA,
relay=sm11.texas.rr.com [24.93.35.42]
Feb 21 01:40:35 sammonsmail sendmail[13280]: g1L6eYUG013277: to=,
delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=cyrus, pri=30625, dsn=2.0.0,
stat=Sent
And thats it... no vacation message is ever sent, and nothing odd is showing
up in my imap log.
The reject script doesnt reject... the mail is sent right on through...
Cyrus.conf:
--
# standard standalone server implementation
START {
# do not delete these entries!
mboxlist cmd="ctl_mboxlist -r"
deliver cmd="ctl_deliver -r"
# this is only necessary if using idled for IMAP IDLE
# idledcmd="idled"
}
# UNIX sockets start with a slash and are put into /var/imap/socket
SERVICES {
# add or remove based on preferences
imap cmd="imapd" listen="imap" prefork=0
imaps cmd="imapd -s" listen="imaps" prefork=0
pop3 cmd="pop3d" listen="pop3" prefork=0
pop3s cmd="pop3d -s" listen="pop3s" prefork=0
sieve cmd="timsieved" listen="sieve" prefork=0
# at least one LMTP is required for delivery
# lmtp cmd="lmtpd" listen="lmtp" prefork=0
lmtpunix cmd="lmtpd" listen="/var/imap/socket/lmtp" prefork=0
}
EVENTS {
# this is required
checkpointcmd="ctl_mboxlist -c" period=30
# this is only necessary if using duplicate delivery suppression
delprune cmd="ctl_deliver -E 3" period=1440
}
Relevant sendmail.mc contents
-
define(`confLOCAL_MAILER',`cyrus')
define(`CYRUS_MAILER_FLAGS', `A5@/:|SmXz')dnl
define(`CYRUS_MAILER_ARGS', `deliver -l -e')
define(`CYRUS_MAILER_PATH',`/usr/cyrus/bin/deliver')dnl
define(`CYRUS_MAILER_MAX',`eval(10*1024*1024)')dnl
define(`CYRUS_MAILER_USER',`cyrus:mail')dnl
define(`CYRUS_BB_MAILER_FLAGS',`S')dnl
define(`CYRUS_BB_MAILER_ARGS',`deliver -l -e -m $u')dnl
FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains')dnl
MAILER(smtp)dnl
MAILER(procmail)dnl
MAILER(local)
MAILER(cyrus)
LOCAL_RULE_0
R$=N$: $#local $: $1
R$=N < @ $=w . >$: $#local $: $1
Rbb + $+ < @ $=w . >$#cyrusbb $: $1
Which gets translated to these .cf contents:
---
Mcyrus,
RE: rebuilding mailboxes.db
Are you running it as the user cyrus? I had a similar problem pre 2.0.16 and had to re install cyrus(upgraded to 2.0.16). Took about 10 mintues and worked great after that. reconstruct -f worked sweet. -Kiarna -Original Message- From: Bernard Frit [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 9:48 PM To: Info-Cyrus (E-mail) Subject:rebuilding mailboxes.db I'm running a 2.0.16 cyrus-imapd and after a filesystem corruption, I'm not able to rebuild mailboxes.db. After executing reconstruct I got a blank mailboxes.db without any reference to existing mailboxes in /var/spool/imap When trying to exec reconstruct -m I got reconstructing mailboxes.db currently not supported Any help appreciated -- Bernard FRIT
Mailing list software
Afternoon folks, I'm curious to know what mailing list cyrus admins like. I have a solaris server w/sendmail/cyrus. I was going to stick Majordomo on it,(In fact it is installed). However grumbling from the users seems to indicate they'd like something more *friendly*. Any ideas? Looked at Mailman, saw it didn't really like sendmail. Am looking at LISTSERV. Big issues are stripping attachments,(want to), limiting resend tries. THANKS! -Kiarna
RE: not receiving email
Hi, On my Solaris servers I test mail without involving the ISP side. I use the mail or mail utilities to generate an email that the server should just send to itself. Then I watch to see if the server responds and collects it, or gives an error. So workflow, mail out to just the server, then does the sendmail accept it? Does it go into the mqueue? Does it go to /var/spool/imap/user/username mail box? Also do you have mail.log and imapd.log to read? Example: server thoth user cyrus mailx -v cyrus@thoth subject: test1 test1 >Control D<(sends it) Then I watch to see if the server responds and collects it, or gives an error. thoth#cyrus... Connecting to localhost via relay... 220 thoth.gsd.harvard.edu ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.2/8.12.2; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 12:17:38 -0500 (EST) >>> EHLO thoth.gsd.harvard.edu 250-thoth.gsd.harvard.edu Hello localhost [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-PIPELINING 250-EXPN 250-VERB 250-8BITMIME 250-SIZE 250-DSN 250-ETRN 250-DELIVERBY 250 HELP >>> MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=48 250 2.1.0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Sender ok >>> RCPT To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> DATA 250 2.1.5 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Recipient ok 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself >>> . 250 2.0.0 g14HHcWK009320 Message accepted for delivery cyrus... Sent (g14HHcWK009320 Message accepted for delivery) Closing connection to localhost >>> QUIT 221 2.0.0 thoth.gsd.harvard.edu closing connection -Original Message- From: Steven M Bloomfield [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 11:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:not receiving email Hi, I'm having big problems getting cyrus to receive emails. My configuration is Redhat 7.1 Cyrus 2.0.13 Sendmail 8 Cyrus looks like it's working correctly, I can login, authentication works ok etc. I can telnet to Cyrus imap and pop3 ports. I have used Squirrelmail to create an additional folder which appears ok. I can use squirrelmail to send mail outwards, but if i reply cyrus doesn't recieve any e-mail. it's not even there when i telnet into pop3 and look for it. If I try sending to myself, that doesn't work either. I have checked with my ISP that the MX records are set, everything seems fine. I have tried removing cyrus and installing off an RPM, I still get the same. Can anyone help me please? All I can think is that there is something wrong with permissions and e-mail isn't being stored? Thanks, Steve Steven M Bloomfield Webmaster, Virtual Manchester www.manchester.com 0161 228 6155
RE: imapd hungs
Hi Enric,
I'm curious what tool you are using to test the imapd?
-Kiarna
-Original Message-
From: Enric Ramos [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 8:17 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:imapd hungs
Hi:
I'm testing cyrus 2.0.15 (apllying it a mail stress tool) and imapd
process hungs...
It hangs always when the server has between 145 and 155 imapd
processes...
When I say "hungs" I mean that, for instance, if I make a connection to
port 143, the imapd process doesn't responds properly...
[root@cyrus2 bin]# telnet localhost 143
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to cyrus2.
Escape character is '^]'
In this situation the server has a lot of memory available, has no
uptime and it seems that is doing "nothing"...
If the stress is not very hihgh... the cyrus works perfectly...
I have configured the imapd process in order to server until 500 childs
with the maxchild directive..
cyrus.conf looks like this:
# standard standalone server implementation
START {
# do not delete these entries!
mboxlist cmd="ctl_mboxlist -r"
deliver cmd="ctl_deliver -r"
# this is only necessary if using idled for IMAP IDLE
# idledcmd="idled"
}
# UNIX sockets start with a slash and are put into /var/imap/sockets
SERVICES {
# add or remove based on preferences
imap cmd="imapd" listen="imap" prefork=20 maxchild=500
# imaps cmd="imapd -s" listen="imaps" prefork=1
pop3 cmd="pop3d" listen="pop3" prefork=10 maxchild=50
# pop3s cmd="pop3d -s" listen="pop3s" prefork=1
sieve cmd="timsieved" listen="sieve" prefork=0
# at least one LMTP is required for delivery
# lmtp cmd="lmtpd" listen="lmtp" prefork=0
lmtpunix cmd="lmtpd" listen="/var/imap/socket/lmtp" prefork=5
}
EVENTS {
# this is required
checkpointcmd="ctl_mboxlist -c" period=30
# this is only necessary if using duplicate delivery suppression
delprune cmd="ctl_deliver -E 3" period=1440
}
Any iadea ?
Regards...
Enric
PAM Soalris 8
Any one have any happy examples of their pam.conf file for solaris 8? Cyrus/sasl/imap etc... THANKS! -Kiarna
RE: mailboxes, db or flat
I don't think you're paranoid, well, overly. All my servers are named very carefully, and get their own engineers(a.k.a toy). My newest cyrus server(thoth) will receive a fabulous lifelike toy donkey if it manages to survive a month in production. Most of my older servers are making due with festive drink umbrellas at the moment. I never discuss replacing servers in the server room. ;) -Kiarna (can you tell I spend too much time at work?) -Original Message- From: Amos Gouaux [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 8:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: mailboxes, db or flat > On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 12:34:47 +0200 (EET), > Leena Heino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (lh) writes: lh> We are consider upgrading Cyrus IMAP from 1.6.25 to 2.1.1. I have some lh> hesitation of using BerkeleyDB with mailboxes. We currently have around lh> 32000 lines in the mailboxes file. I think a bigger concern is the actual load you tend to see. Before we upgraded to a post-2.0.16 CVS snapshot back in September of this year we had just over 64000 lines in our mailboxes file, however we've been using BDB mailboxes database without serious problems (*knock on wood*). This is a Solaris 8 box--recently patched--with BDB 3.3.11. (I hate talking about machines, especially those that have been doing fairly well. I'm convinced they can hear you. Just when you say everything is all peachy, they up and loose a drive, power supply, memory goes bad, etc, etc. Now ain't that paranoid!) -- Amos
info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Good morning Folks, IS there any one on the list that is willing to do contract support for cyrus/sieve/silkymail? Also what are people using for mailing lists? Thanks! -Kiarna
server build
So after months of planning it and hassling all of you fine generous folks for insight, I AM BUILDING MY NEW MAIL SERVER! (I'm spending x-mas implementing it) I'm a little nervous to be truthful as I have a tiny window to get it to work right. So far: Sun E220R (2- 450 mhz) 2 gig RAM 1-36 gig drive 1- 36 gig miror Solaris 2.7 80 gig RAID (will be mounted /var/spool/imap) Planned software: Sendmail 8.12.1 Cyrus 2.16 Silkymail 1.1.2 sleepycat 4.0.14 I am biting my nails over Sieve(okay I am a big chicken) Also all those folks who suggested Postfix, I heard you and appreciated your insight, but it was an internal head count of who knows Sendmail. (i'm in an edu, can you tell?) I tried to hook up with CyrusSoft so that I won't drive you all nuts with my questions. But Please wish me luck and send me any last minute suggests to change the above! I'm still on the fence about the Sieve.I'll probably do it, but I am nervous! Thank you so much! This is the most helpful list I have every been on. Enjoy your holidays! -Kiarna
Support
Good Morning folks! Does anyone recommend where to get support for cyrus/silkymail? My company is interseted in having a vendor contract to support a core system. Something about me taking vacations. ;) -Kiarna p.s I tried contacting cyrusoft a bunch of times but nobody got back to me.
RE: Mail forwarding without '.forward'
Can you point me at some good sieve documentation to go with my cyrus upgrade?
Thanks!
( I have http://www.cyrusoft.com/sieve/)
Any other favs.
-Kiarna
-Original Message-
From: John Wade [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 11:42 PM
To: LF
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: Mail forwarding without '.forward'
The easiest way to do this is with sieve. (Built in to cyrus 2.X)
Users can access a simple tool like easysieve from a web browser to set
the forwarding address.Also supports fancier features like vacation
autoreplies, etc.
Hope this helps,
John Wade
LF wrote:
>I would appreciate some advise here.
>
>I was trying to migrate from qmail to cyrus imap (with postfix) when I
>encounter this problem. If users request for the auto-forwarding feature
>(".forward" supported by postfix), does cyrus imap server support
>mail forwarding? I don't wanna use ".forward" feature offered by postfix
>because that will mean I have to create system accounts
>instead of cyrus-sasl accounts.
>
> Please help.
>
>Million thks!
>
>
>
RE: where do full mailboxes send messages
Depends what is under the cyrus. My sendmail queues the message for several days. It will email me, the postmaster, saying the message could not be delivered. It will try redelivering it based on what the queue is set to. Does that help? -Kiarna -Original Message- From: Andreas Freyvogel [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 1:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:where do full mailboxes send messages Good Day all! I have a quick question: if a users mailbox is full what does the system do with that message? As far as I am able to see it does not send a response to the sender saying it cannot be delivered, but it does not keep it either. Thank you in advance for any assistance or thoughts. -Andreas
install Docs
Good Morning! I hope every one had a good Thanks Giving I am trying to gather cyrus docs, listed below are the ones I know of and use. If anyone has other favorites, could you please email them to me? Thanks! -Kiarna http://shamrock.med.nyu.edu/cyrus/install.html http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/cyrus/imapd/install-FAQ
RE: moving cyrus to another server
Hi John! I would be grateful if you posted the steps! -Kiarna -Original Message- From: John Wade [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 10:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: moving cyrus to another server Hi Vincent, When we migrated two servers from Cyrus 1.5.x to Cyrus 2.0.16 on new hardware we just shutdown cyrus and the MTA and used nfs to copy the 35GB of files. I movied everything in: /var/spool/imap, var/imap/user, /var/imap/quota and the /var/imap/mailboxes file. As a previous post indicated, you may have to do a ctl_mboxlist dump and import if you are using the 2.0.x berkeley db and if you are using sieve, you will have to grab the sieve files. The only other cleanup I had to do was to fix file ownership, which was my own fault for not using the same uid for the cyrus user on both boxes. Since we use external authenticatio via LDAP, I did not have to worry about moving that. Of course, since it was an upgrade we did a lot of other things in the move including hashing the user and quota directories, reditributing our users in a new partition structure and fixing the delete permissions for the admin user in the mailboxes database. If anyone is interested in the full set of steps, I could post it to the list. John Wade > > > Hello, > > Next week I will be moving to another ISP. Is there > > a way to migrate my cyrus imap mailboxes to the new > > server in a painless manner? > > Thanks
RE: moving cyrus to another server
Hi Guys! I have to replace my mail server over the next few weeks. Are you thinking about imapxfer because the new server is controlled by your new ISP? I am curious because I was going to use a glorified tar command to copy/move my mailboxes -Original Message- From: Emiliano [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 12:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: moving cyrus to another server Hiya Vincent, > Next week I will be moving to another ISP. Is there > a way to migrate my cyrus imap mailboxes to the new > server in a painless manner? I've had some success with imapxfer (the not-so-success part was probably a conflict between courier and cyrus -- don't get ne started on courier). I have a version here that doesn't require you to login three times per folder (bah), it's yours if you want it. Needs c-client and dotconf to compile. Emile
RE: upgrade help
Thanks Amos! I think I am going to go with Michael's suggested U60 w/2 450 MHz and 2 Gig memory. Or U220r The E220R seems a bit excessive for us right now. I have 1000 users about 50 % imap. I will slap external RAID for 80 gig space growth on it I think I have to use the E220r for its intend purpose..sigh... (How many production servers can one girl rebuild in a month?) Thanks for the /usr/sbin/nscd -g from it I have: 98% passwd cache hit rate 50 % group cache hit rate 60 % hosts cache hit rate What is ideal? I really appreciate everyone's help. This list is soo useful! -Kiarna -Original Message- From: Amos Gouaux [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 10:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: upgrade help >>>>> On Fri, 9 Nov 2001 08:29:53 -0500, >>>>> Kiarna Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (kb) writes: kb> I have a E220 R my predessesor bought sitting in a box, I have kb> to dig it out and see what it has for Oh gee, if you've got that, crack open the box. I would imagine that would be sufficient, even if it only had one processor. You just might need to get an external array for storage since this only holds two disks. kb> Memory and disks. What do you suggest for nscd settings? kb> Using top nscd? For your install base I'd be somewhat surprised that you'd have to alter nscd all that much. You could raise the passwd entry by some prime number. On our E250 looks like I've got: suggested-size passwd 701 Just run this command periodically to see how you're doing: /usr/sbin/nscd -g If the hit rate isn't so swell, try bumping up the suggested-size. Oh, on a more personally note, I've seen some spooky things with some of the Solaris 7 patches, particularly the kernel and libthread patches. While I know many folks are using this release, personally I have a bit more faith with Solaris 8 And I guess while I'm at it, my first inclination would be to move Sendmail to a different host, then wire (reverse-pair) a direct connection between the hosts. Both MTA work and Cyrus are heavy I/O hogs and running them separately has worked well for us (though we happen to be using Postfix, but all MTA are going to suck I/O.) Hell, if you did that, you might even be able to get by with a Netra T1 AC200 for the Sendmail host. Unlike the X1, this box uses SCSI drives and has at least 1 PCI slot. The EDU price on this is pretty reasonable. Then again, your numbers indicated you were more CPU bound than I/O bound, so maybe this would just be overkill. -- Amos
RE: upgrade help
Good Morning Michael, I really appreciate your help. I just inherited this system and am trying to figure it out. All I can say about the mailstats is 'Doh!'. I reintialized the mailstats file this AM. Hopefully that will pick up some actually useful information. I have a E220 R my predessesor bought sitting in a box, I have to dig it out and see what it has for Memory and disks. What do you suggest for nscd settings? Using top last pid: 22925; load averages: 1.95, 2.40, 4.20 08:20:51 81 processes: 76 sleeping, 4 running, 1 on cpu CPU states: 2.2% idle, 68.4% user, 29.4% kernel, 0.0% iowait, 0.0% swap Memory: 384M real, 54M free, 134M swap in use, 378M swap free PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIMECPU COMMAND 22777 root 1 310 3056K 2824K run 0:07 14.87% sendmail 22559 root 1 220 2880K 2528K run 0:02 6.85% sendmail 22787 cyrus 1 580 17M 3312K sleep 0:02 4.83% lmtpd 22783 cyrus 1 580 17M 3424K sleep 0:02 3.65% lmtpd 22840 cyrus 1 480 17M 3288K sleep 0:00 2.90% lmtpd 22276 cyrus 1 530 17M 3344K sleep 0:03 2.73% lmtpd 22887 root 1 320 2824K 2448K run 0:00 2.15% sendmail 21999 root 1 120 3224K 2904K sleep 0:08 1.65% sendmail 22871 cyrus 1 580 17M 3304K sleep 0:00 1.25% lmtpd 22679 cyrus 1 580 17M 3312K sleep 0:01 1.14% lmtpd 22904 cyrus 1 280 17M 3264K run 0:00 1.02% lmtpd 22921 cyrus 1 330 2440K 1544K sleep 0:00 0.95% deliver 22668 root 1 110 2912K 2568K sleep 0:03 0.88% sendmail 22849 root 1 580 1776K 1464K cpu 0:00 0.65% top-3.5b8-sun4u 196 root 14 520 4984K 1792K sleep 6:09 0.61% syslogd Your statistics from dec 14 aren't all that usefull unfortunately ;^( We have slightly more users than you though only about 1000 are active users with about 700 logged in during the day (and night for that matter, many never log out). We have a U450 with 2 400MHz procesors and 2GB of memory and it sleeps most of the time. I would suggest an U220R/U60 or a U450 if you have one lying around, probably one processor will be enough but you need much more memory. You may be able to continue with your U5 if you increase your memory and improve your disk system e.g. with an SRC/P. The ide disks are a bit slow, particularly the older 4GB disks, replace them if you can and move swap to a fast disk. You can also improve performance by changing the nscd settings, they are probably TOO low, particularly the negative cache times. I would also suggest installing top so that you can see who is using that 70%. /Michael -- This space intentionally left non-blank.
upgrade help
Hey guys! I am still tuning my server Solaris 2.7 Sendmail 8 cyrus 2.0.16 Looks like I just need bigger server. I changed the config to look locally for .forwards rather than $Home/.forward. My cpu is still at 100% use. I am seeing 70% user 21% kernel 0.0% io 0.0% swap lmtpd,sendmail,deliver, are all the big users The box is Ultra 5 1 400Mhz 384 Megabytes memory. What would be big enough to support 2000 users of imap & large files? Here's my mailstats: Statistics from Thu Dec 14 14:33:33 2000 M msgsfr bytes_from msgstobytes_to msgsrej msgsdis Mailer 00 0K 3040 52104K0 0 prog 10 0K 14188K0 0 *file* 5 827592 23007462K 587625 18078469K15102 0 esmtp 9 324507 12682365K 841128 15233311K24745 0 cyrus = T 1152099 35689827K 1431807 33364072K39847 0 C 1152099 143180739847 THANKS! -K
denying a user
Good afternoon! I have Solaris 2.7 running cyrus 2.0.16 on Sendmail 8. I am looking for a quick way to deny a user from sending mail through the server. We have a few nimda people left and even though I have a virus filter running I want to block the users from sending any mail. Any suggestions? Thanks
RE: forwarding
THANKS! -Original Message- From: Jules Agee [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 7:11 PM To: info-cyrus Subject:Re: forwarding Sieve scripts? http://www.cyrusoft.com/sieve/ Kiarna Boyd wrote: >Hi! >I have 2.0.16 and sendmail 8 on Solaris 7. > >I am looking for a graceful solution for .forwards. >Anyone have a better solution than the traditional home dir .forward? > >Thanks! > >-Kiarna > > -- Jules Agee System Administrator Pacific Coast Feather Co. [EMAIL PROTECTED] x284 Private communication between citizens is necessary to ensure the continued preservation of freedom. For more information, see: http://www.computerprivacy.org/archive/03171998-5.shtml My public encryption key is available here: http://keyserver.pgp.com/pks/lookup?op=get&exact=on&search=0x21662FE4
forwarding
Hi! I have 2.0.16 and sendmail 8 on Solaris 7. I am looking for a graceful solution for .forwards. Anyone have a better solution than the traditional home dir .forward? Thanks! -Kiarna
RE: copying whole folder trees from one server to another
Hi Darrell! On unix I use tar commands and rsh/ssh. On the same server you can leave off the rsh bit. I like ssh myself. Make sure you can rsh/ssh first! Also this is a very intense command it will overwrite files. cd to the directory you wish to copy pwd /var/spool/imap tar cvfp - .| rsh server;(cd /var/spool/imap;tar xvfp -) or on same server cd /var/spool/imap/user/kboyd pwd /var/spool/imap/user/kboyd tar cvfp - .|(cd /backup/imap/user/kboyd; tar xvfp -) I use this to copy gigs of data. Hope it helps! -Original Message- From: darrell berry [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 10:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:copying whole folder trees from one server to another hi i asked a while back about migration tools which could copy whole user folder trees form one imap server to another, and had no repsonse...has anyone used such a tool? i've tried imapcopy, which is fone, but only does inbox, not subfolders thereof... all help very much appreciated! thx
Strange through put.
Good Morning! I have a Solaris 7 Ultra 5 w/384 Megabytes running cyrus 2.0.16 on top of sendmail 8. My server has a 100 base ether card and on full duplex running on a 100 base port. ( I checked it with ndd -get) Okay the strange thing is that we are now using a network performance monitor and I am seeing the server crunched at about 11 meg through put! 10m is average 11m spikes. The only thing on this server is the mail. The CPU is currently hanging at around 30 % idle. Any ideas? Thank you Thank you! -Kiarna
RE: perl script for adding users
I inherited an excellent script that works wonderfully.Thank you Joe Balsama!
I have replaced the site specifics with generic server.domain.com cyrususer and
password
I use this script to add and delete user mailboxes.
It queries the server for the user via NIS ypmatch.
I shall paste it here as I do not know if the list takes attachments?
mailboxes
#!/usr/bin/perl
my $list = '';
my $arg = '';
my $username = '';
my $command = '';
$login_info =
"eval cyradm connect cyr_conn servername.domain.com\n" .
"eval cyr_conn authenticate -pwcommand {{\n" .
" set hostname \"servername.domain.com\"\n" .
" set adminid \"cyrususer\"\n" .
" set adminpw \"password\"\n" .
" list \$adminid \$adminpw\n" .
" }}\n\n";
$usage =
"\nmailboxes [ADD|DEL] [-f FILE] [-u USERNAME]\n" .
"creates new mailboxes on server.domain.com\n";
unless (@ARGV) {die "$usage\n"; }
unless (( $ARGV[0] eq 'ADD' ) || ( $ARGV[0] eq 'DEL' )) {die "$usage\n"; }
my $command = $ARGV[0];
shift;
while (<@ARGV>)
{
if ($ARGV[0] eq '-f')
{
$list = "1";
open LIST, @ARGV[1] || die "Can't open LIST\n$usage";
shift;
shift;
}
if ($ARGV[0] eq '-u')
{
$username = @ARGV[1] || die "No username provided\n$usage";
$arg = "1";
shift;
shift;
}
}
if (( $list eq '1' ) && ( $command eq 'ADD' ))
{
while ()
{
if ( -f "make.cyr.boxes" ) { unlink "make.cyr.boxes"; }
umask 0077;
open CMDS, ">>make.cyr.boxes" || die "Can't open CMDS for writing\n";
print CMDS $login_info;
$user = $_;
chomp $user;
$user =~ s/^(\w+):.+$/$1/;
if ( system("ypmatch $user passwd") eq '0' )
{
# (^ if uid actually exists)
print CMDS "puts \"\\ncreate inbox for user " . $user . "\\n\"\n";
print CMDS "cyr_conn createmailbox user." . $user . "\n";
print CMDS "puts \"\\nset quota for " . $user . " 8000k\\n\"\n";
print CMDS "cyr_conn setquota user." . $user . " storage 8000\n";
close CMDS;
system ("/usr/local/sbin/cyradm", "-file", "make.cyr.boxes");
} else {
print "$user: No such user\n";
}
}
close LIST;
} elsif (( $list eq '1' ) && ( $command eq 'DEL' )) {
die "\$list = $list : Cannot $command from a file (too unsafe)\n$usage";
}
if ($arg)
{
if ( -f "make.cyr.boxes" ) { unlink "make.cyr.boxes"; }
umask 0077;
open CMDS, ">>make.cyr.boxes" || die "Can't open CMDS for writing\n";
print CMDS $login_info;
$user = $username;
chomp $user;
$user =~ s/^(\w+):.+$/$1/;
if ( system("ypmatch $user passwd") eq '0' )
{
# (^ if uid actually exists)
if ( $command eq 'ADD' )
{
print CMDS "puts \"\\ncreate inbox for user " . $user . "\\n\"\n";
print CMDS "cyr_conn createmailbox user." . $user . "\n";
print CMDS "puts \"\\nset quota for " . $user . " 8000k\\n\"\n";
print CMDS "cyr_conn setquota user." . $user . " storage 8000\n";
} elsif ( $command eq 'DEL' ) {
print CMDS "puts \"\\ndelete inbox for user " . $user . "\\n\"\n";
print CMDS "cyr_conn setaclmailbox user." . $user . " cyrus all\n";
print CMDS "cyr_conn deletemailbox user." . $user . "\n";
} else {
die "Invalid command: $command\n";
}
close CMDS;
system ("/usr/local/sbin/cyradm", "-file", "make.cyr.boxes");
} else {
print "$user: No such user\n";
}
}
exit;
-Original Message-
From: Daniel Schwager [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 2:02 AM
To: Vincent Stoessel
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: perl script for adding users
Vincent Stoessel wrote:
>
> Anyone have a sample perl script for adding new users for
> cyrus?
.. and anyone habe a sample perl script for changing user-permissions
recursive ??
regards
Danny
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RE: New server
Thank you! I hadn't heard that postfix was more efficiant than sendmail. I shall have to look into it. Was the migration form sendmail to postfix difficult? I greatly appreciate your input! -Kiarna p.s I very much enjoyed your sig file. -Original Message- From: Nick Simicich [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 7:18 PM To: Info-Cyrus (E-mail) Subject:RE: New server At 02:25 PM 10/3/2001 -0400, Kiarna Boyd wrote: >Wow. >Yes you are right if that is a base performance. >I have 2.0.16 currently for cyrus. Sendmail 8.22. > >Is there specific tuning I need to do? >Are there FAQ's available? I was running sendmail on a P-100 which primarily served as a mailing list host. I was sending out about 140,000 pieces of mail a week, and it was slamming the poor P-100. My average queue delay was about 1 hour 40 minutes for mail delivered without bounceback. I am now running postfix, still on the same hardware, my average delay in queue is under 10 minutes and instead of the delivery process being cpu bound, postfix takes less than 10% of the cpu and mail runs i/o bound. Postfix was essentially a drop-in replacement for sendmail, I think I had to change one place where I was invoking sendmail because I used an odd option that postfix's sendmail compatibility interface did not support. On a different system, I have postfix and cyrus well integrated. I am not nearly at your load levels on that system, so I can't provide any guidance. But if I were running 42% of my CPU for mail delivery, I would look to postfix or another mail system as a way of saving most of that. >My mail queue is high and I have about 20 imap seesions at peak. > >Nfs auto mounts to user home dirs. Mailboxes are local to the server though. > >I show 7 sendmail processes each at around 6 %. > >Thanks for your help! -- War is an ugly thing, but it is not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made so by the exertions of better men than himself. -- John Stuart Mill Nick Simicich - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: New server
Wow. Yes you are right if that is a base performance. I have 2.0.16 currently for cyrus. Sendmail 8.22. Is there specific tuning I need to do? Are there FAQ's available? My mail queue is high and I have about 20 imap seesions at peak. Nfs auto mounts to user home dirs. Mailboxes are local to the server though. I show 7 sendmail processes each at around 6 %. Thanks for your help! -Kiarna -Original Message- From: Lawrence Greenfield [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 2:04 PM To: Info-Cyrus (E-mail); [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: New server It's much more important that you understand what is causing such a high load on your system right now. We support over 5000 concurrent connections on two 450 MHz UltraSpace-II processors and 2 gigs of memory, and run at peak times at around a 3 load average. It's also important to think about I/O channels. You also didn't mention what version of Cyrus you're running. Larry From: Kiarna Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 08:27:31 -0400 Organization: GSD Good morning folks! I want to draw on your collective experience on cyrus servers hardware. I currently have a Sun Ultra 10 with a 400Mhz processor and half gig of ram. An average of 150+ concurrent users is pegging my CPU at high 90's between kernel use and user. If I break it down it is the heavy IMAP traffic. So I need to spec out a new ideal server. I am thinking 2 processor and a full gig of ram. However I want to plan on 400+ concurrency just to have some elbow room. This is a school so we get a a lot of surprise email traffic. Any suggestions? I really appreciate you taking the time to help me with this! -Kiarna
New server
Good morning folks! I want to draw on your collective experience on cyrus servers hardware. I currently have a Sun Ultra 10 with a 400Mhz processor and half gig of ram. An average of 150+ concurrent users is pegging my CPU at high 90's between kernel use and user. If I break it down it is the heavy IMAP traffic. So I need to spec out a new ideal server. I am thinking 2 processor and a full gig of ram. However I want to plan on 400+ concurrency just to have some elbow room. This is a school so we get a a lot of surprise email traffic. Any suggestions? I really appreciate you taking the time to help me with this! -Kiarna
tuning
Hi guys, I am looking for good tuneing docs for 2.0.16. Any one have favorites? Thanks! -Kiarna
2.0.16 Install trouble shooting 'ar', quota fixed
Hi guys! Just a dinky note to mention my upgrade from 2.0.7 to 2.0.16 went really well. It did fix my quota issues with quota -f not working. All users now have their quota roots! Only snag was I had to add /usr/ccs/bin to my path to get /usr/ccs/bin/ar to run within the make scripts. Thanks again to all of you who gave me suggestions and advice! -Kiarna
upgrading cyrus verion
Good Morning! To repair my quota woes I have to upgrade my cyrus install. PLEASE tell me from your experience what version you currently find to be the most stable. I am running 2.0.7 I appreciate it! -Kiarna
RE: Problem with deliver [URGENT]
Hi Patrick, I have seen the same behavior on my server. I did a global mailbox reconstruct and it seemed to go away. Hope that helps! -Kiarna -Original Message- From: Patrick LIN [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 11:46 AM To: Cyrus Imap mailing List Subject:Problem with deliver [URGENT] Importance: High Please someone can help me with that 3 times i post about this problem and never get any answer :(( i use sendmail Swict 2.1 cyrus 2.0.16 on Solaris 2.6 my syrus mailer specification : Mcyrus, P=/usr/local/bin/deliver, F=lsDFMnPqAh5@/:|, S=EnvFromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL, U=cyrus:cyrus, T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix, A=deliver -e -m $h -- $u Mcyrusbb, P=/usr/local/bin/deliver, F=lsDFMnPu, S=EnvFromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL, U=cyrus:cyrus, T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix, A=deliver -e -m $u sometine (randomly) no deliver is made to one of my user (random) when i do a ps -ef |grep deliver i have : cyrus 19672 19671 0 00:03:19 ?0:00 deliver -e -m -- toto cyrus 20763 20762 0 10:17:56 ?0:00 deliver -e -m -- toto cyrus 9690 9689 0 20:14:56 ?0:00 deliver -e -m -- toto cyrus 411 410 0 04:11:46 ?0:00 deliver -e -m -- toto cyrus 9874 9873 0 07:47:16 ?0:00 deliver -e -m -- toto cyrus 22026 22025 0 10:31:19 ?0:00 deliver -e -m -- toto cyrus 406 405 0 04:11:45 ?0:00 deliver -e -m -- toto cyrus 14624 14619 0 22:05:45 ?0:00 deliver -e -m -- toto cyrus 5614 5613 0 18:42:28 ?0:00 deliver -e -m -- toto cyrus 456 455 0 04:12:12 ?0:00 deliver -e -m -- toto cyrus 24718 24716 0 11:09:13 ?0:00 deliver -e -m -- toto cyrus 435 434 0 04:11:54 ?0:00 deliver -e -m -- toto root 26057 10426 0 11:26:41 pts/00:00 grep deliver cyrus 23954 23953 0 10:58:35 ?0:00 deliver -e -m -- toto cyrus 22926 22925 0 10:42:55 ?0:00 deliver -e -m -- toto cyrus 24751 24750 0 11:09:34 ?0:00 deliver -e -m -- toto cyrus 400 399 0 04:11:43 ?0:00 deliver -e -m -- toto cyrus 429 428 0 04:11:52 ?0:00 deliver -e -m -- toto cyrus 17313 17312 0 09:43:20 ?0:00 deliver -e -m -- toto cyrus 447 445 0 04:12:06 ?0:00 deliver -e -m -- toto cyrus 21787 21786 0 10:30:18 ?0:00 deliver -e -m -- toto cyrus 16114 16113 0 09:30:27 ?0:00 deliver -e -m -- toto cyrus 16559 16558 0 09:35:29 ?0:00 deliver -e -m -- toto cyrus 423 422 0 04:11:48 ?0:00 deliver -e -m -- toto cyrus 452 451 0 04:12:08 ?0:00 deliver -e -m -- toto cyrus 18770 18769 0 09:57:34 ?0:00 deliver -e -m -- toto cyrus 6995 6994 0 19:14:27 ?0:00 deliver -e -m -- toto cyrus 417 416 0 04:11:47 ?0:00 deliver -e -m -- toto cyrus 17214 17213 0 09:40:50 ?0:00 deliver -e -m -- toto the user cannot receive any mail each mail sent creat a new entry in the ps only one user is affected at the same time PLEASE HELP Best Regards Patrick -- __( / | | / \ | This message is transmitted by | \ \ | 100 % recycled electrons |___\ / |__( /__)
disk block corruption
Good Afternoon! Have any of you seen cyrus db writes doing anything odd to disk blocks? I have replaced a drive where the errors where on the cyrus partition. Might just be coincidence, but this is exactly where my quota db's got corrupted. Chicken and the egg! (I am prepping to upgrade the cyrus on the new disk, incase the badness was disk -> cyrus) THANKS! -Kiarna
RE: Quota root problems
I have noticed the new accounts do not have a cyrus.seen file in the mailbox.How can I force this? quota -f is broken... -Original Message- From: Kiarna Boyd [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 2:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Quota root problems Good Afternoon! I am having very weird behavior out of my Cyrus 2.0.7 quota. On user mailboxes that were upgraded, everything seems to be okay. But on mailboxes created after, I get the following error: New Account: > lq user.mpill STORAGE 0/8000 (0%) > setquota user.mpill 9000 > lqr user.mpill NO QUOTA ROOTS old account: > lqr user.rsanna user.rsanna STORAGE 20902/3 (69%) any suggestions?
Quota root problems
Good Afternoon! I am having very weird behavior out of my Cyrus 2.0.7 quota. On user mailboxes that were upgraded, everything seems to be okay. But on mailboxes created after, I get the following error: New Account: > lq user.mpill STORAGE 0/8000 (0%) > setquota user.mpill 9000 > lqr user.mpill NO QUOTA ROOTS old account: > lqr user.rsanna user.rsanna STORAGE 20902/3 (69%) any suggestions?
cyrus quota error
Greetings! I am a newbie Cyrus Admin just inherited a 2.0.7 Cyrus configuration. My user quotas are not equaling the actual mailboxes. When I try to run as user cyrus the quota -f option I receive the following error: quota: Internal error: assertion failed: cyrusdb_db3.c: 187: dbinit && fname && ret I have tried it with imapd and sendmail running, and with them off. Anyone have a suggestion? Thank you for your time! I am armed with only my O'Reilly IMAP book... -Kiarna
