[Dovecot] Attribute Cache flush errors on FreeBSD 8.2

2012-01-07 Thread Phil Kernick
I'm running dovecot 2.0.16 on FreeBSD 8.2 with the mail spool and indexes on an NFS server. Lines like the following keep appearing in syslog for access to each mailbox: Error: nfs_flush_attr_cache_fd_locked: fchown(/home/philk/Mail/Deleted) failed: Bad file descriptor This is coming from

[Dovecot] Providing shared folders with multiple backend servers

2012-01-07 Thread Sven Hartge
Hi *, I am currently in the planning stage for a new and improved mail system at my university. Right now, everything is on one big backend server but this is causing me increasing amounts of pain, beginning with the time a full backup takes. So naturally, I want to split this big server into

Re: [Dovecot] Providing shared folders with multiple backend servers

2012-01-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 1/7/2012 4:20 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: Hi *, I am currently in the planning stage for a new and improved mail system at my university. Right now, everything is on one big backend server but this is causing me increasing amounts of pain, beginning with the time a full backup takes. You

Re: [Dovecot] Providing shared folders with multiple backend servers

2012-01-07 Thread Sven Hartge
Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: It's highly likely your problems can be solved without the drastic architecture change, and new problems it will introduce, that you describe below. The main reason is I need to replace the hardware as its service contract ends this year and I am

Re: [Dovecot] Strange error: DIGEST-MD5 mechanism can't be supported with given passdbs

2012-01-07 Thread Yubao Liu
Hi Timo, Did you review the patches in previous email? I tested two patches against my configuration(pasted in this thread too), they both work well. I prefer the first patch, but I'm not sure whether it breaks something else. Regards, Yubao Liu On 01/07/2012 11:36 AM, Yubao Liu wrote: On