Re: [courier-users] RES: Courier Backup / replication point

2007-11-26 Thread gordan
This sounds very much like a re-invention of a wheel. If you need high-availability and load sharing on your mail system, then cluster the servers properly and set up a GFS file system on top of a SAN or if you don't have a SAN, on top of a DRDB. I have recently deployed just such a system. I c

[courier-users] RES: RES: Courier Backup / replication point

2007-11-26 Thread Ronie Gilberto Henrich
Hi Jay, Hi Gordan, I will explain better our today's setup, I cannot see/understand how your solution could fit/work in our environment: 2 "external" servers: they are firewall, LVS and load balancing; 2 "internal" servers: they are the courier serv

Re: [courier-users] RES: RES: Courier Backup / replication point

2007-11-26 Thread gordan
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Ronie Gilberto Henrich wrote: > Hi Jay, Hi Gordan, > > I will explain better our today's setup, I cannot see/understand how > your > solution could fit/work in our environment: > 2 "external" servers: they are firewall, LVS and load balancing; >

[courier-users] Courier Imap + NFS mailboxes

2007-11-26 Thread Pavel Georgiev
Hi, I have postfix + courier running on two servers with mailboxes shared on a third server shared over nfs. When I access a mailbox over imap, I see it trying to rename files from ./new to ./cur, which is OK. The problem is that the syscall returns 0 (which is success) but the file is still

Re: [courier-users] RES: Courier Backup / replication point

2007-11-26 Thread Jay Lee
On 11/26/07, Ronie Gilberto Henrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1) Price (it is a very expensive solution); No not really, you can use OSS solutions like GFS or ZFS to achieve this. you're already talking about having redundant storage, why should it cost any more at the files

Re: [courier-users] Courier Imap + NFS mailboxes

2007-11-26 Thread Jose Celestino
Words by Pavel Georgiev [Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 05:35:42PM +0200]: > Hi, > > I have postfix + courier running on two servers with mailboxes shared on a > third server shared over nfs. > > When I access a mailbox over imap, I see it trying to rename files from ./new > to ./cur, which is OK. The

Re: [courier-users] RES: Courier Backup / replication point

2007-11-26 Thread gordan
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Jay Lee wrote: > On 11/26/07, Ronie Gilberto Henrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> 1) Price (it is a very expensive solution); > > > > No not really, you can use OSS solutions like GFS or ZFS to achieve this. > you're already talking about having redundant s

Re: [courier-users] deny specific user

2007-11-26 Thread Gordon Messmer
Markus Karlsruhe wrote: > > I'm searching for a way of denying or no authentication for unknown > users without authenticate them. Everytime I authenticate an unknown > user, I send an unneeded SQL statement to a database. If the unknown > User is used as a spam receiver, there are millions of sql

[courier-users] courier-0.57 and rfc2045

2007-11-26 Thread FM
Hello, I upgrade from 0.52.1 to 0.57 Now lots of message have this in the body CORRUPTED MESSAGE This is the Courier Mail Server 0.57 on mail.lexum.umontreal.ca. I received the following message for delivery to your address. This message contains several internal formatting errors. This is o

Re: [courier-users] Courier Imap + NFS mailboxes

2007-11-26 Thread Gordon Messmer
Pavel Georgiev wrote: > > To eliminate nfs race conditions I`ve turned the second mail server off, so > there is only one nfs client accessing the mailboxes. The nfs server is a > linux box as well, running Ubuntu 7.04, the underlying fs is reiserfs and it > runs on top of drbd (if this makes a

Re: [courier-users] courier-0.57 and rfc2045

2007-11-26 Thread Gordon Messmer
FM wrote: > > Now lots of message have this in the body > >CORRUPTED MESSAGE > This is the Courier Mail Server 0.57 on mail.lexum.umontreal.ca. ... > Is there another way to handle that ? Yes, read man courier(8); look for "opt BOFHBADMIME".

Re: [courier-users] courier-0.57 and rfc2045

2007-11-26 Thread Tim Lyth
Hi FM, Add to /etc/courier/bofh (or wherever the Courier config files are for you): opt BOFHBADMIME=accept I was getting the same error with my Courier smtpd until I found this option. Cheers, Tim Lyth FM wrote: > Hello, > I upgrade from 0.52.1 to 0.57 > > Now lots of message have this in the

Re: [courier-users] Courier Imap + NFS mailboxes

2007-11-26 Thread Pavel Georgiev
On Monday 26 November 2007 19:23:29 Gordon Messmer wrote: > Pavel Georgiev wrote: > > To eliminate nfs race conditions I`ve turned the second mail server off, > > so there is only one nfs client accessing the mailboxes. The nfs server > > is a linux box as well, running Ubuntu 7.04, the underlying

[courier-users] RES: RES: RES: Courier Backup / replication point

2007-11-26 Thread Ronie Gilberto Henrich
Hi Gordan, About the costs, I am talking about Brazil, a ready made SAN, redundant, with all we need, will be around 100K GBP. I need replication because the same user can one time be redirected to one server and the other time, he/she can be redirected to the second server. So,

Re: [courier-users] Courier Imap + NFS mailboxes

2007-11-26 Thread Gordon Messmer
Pavel Georgiev wrote: > > You can see the two logs here: > http://0101.netclime.net/tcpdump.log (3MB) There was a typo in the command I gave you. It should have been: tcpdump -s0 -w /tmp/nfs.chatter host - This SF.net em

Re: [courier-users] Courier Imap + NFS mailboxes

2007-11-26 Thread Pavel Georgiev
I did tcpdump -vv -s0 -A host nfs 2>&1 |tee log Anyway, here is a new dump, hope it helps: http://0101.netclime.net/nfs.log (1MB) On Monday 26 November 2007 20:30:04 Gordon Messmer wrote: > Pavel Georgiev wrote: > > You can see the two logs here: > > http://0101.netclime.net/tcpdump.log (3MB) > >