[Dovecot] Director pop-login and imap-login processes exiting on signal 11

2012-04-07 Thread Andy Dills
We recently upgraded our cluster to 2.1.3, to enable director proxying. Everything appears to be working fine for the most part; the only odd thing is that I'm seeing a lot of entries in the logs like this: Apr 7 02:18:05 mail-out06 dovecot: pop3-login: Fatal: master: service(pop3-login):

Re: [Dovecot] Better to use a single large storage server or multiple smaller for mdbox?

2012-04-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/5/2012 3:02 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: Hi Emmanuel, I'm trying to improve the setup of our Dovecot/Exim mail servers to handle the increasingly huge accounts (everybody thinks it's like infinitely growing storage like gmail and stores everything forever in their email accounts) by

Re: [Dovecot] Better to use a single large storage server or multiple smaller for mdbox?

2012-04-07 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 4/7/12, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: Firstly, thanks for the comprehensive reply. :) I'll assume networked storage nodes means NFS, not FC/iSCSI SAN, in which case you'd have said SAN. I haven't decided on that but it would either be NFS or iSCSI over Gigabit. I don't

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot LDA/LMTP vs postfix virtual delivery agent and the x-original-to header

2012-04-07 Thread Daniel L. Miller
On 4/6/2012 1:00 PM, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2012-04-06 2:53 PM, Daniel L. Miller dmil...@amfes.com wrote: I'm currently using Postfix 2.7, Dovecot 2.1, and the Dovecot LDA. I have a pure virtual user environment stored in LDAP. My messages include X-Original-To and Delivered-To headers.

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot LDA/LMTP vs postfix virtual delivery agent and the x-original-to header

2012-04-07 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 11:06:48 -0700 Daniel L. Miller articulated: Unfortunately, the docs for the ltmp agent http://www.postfix.org/lmtp.8.html don't say anything about adding these headers. I tried asking on the Postfix list - didn't get much of an answer. I may be wrong; however, from

Re: [Dovecot] Outlook (2010) - Dovecot (IMAP) 10x slower with high network load and many folders

2012-04-07 Thread Thomas von Eyben
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 3:16 AM, Willie Gillespie wgillespie+dove...@es2eng.com wrote: On 4/6/2012 3:52 AM, Thomas von Eyben wrote: Test results: CLIENT-1 is having the problems when CLIENT-2 is using all the (100Mbps) bandwidth eg. copying files to MAIL-SRV. If I move CLIENT-1 to CLIENT-3

Re: [Dovecot] Better to use a single large storage server or multiple smaller for mdbox?

2012-04-07 Thread Robin
Putting XFS on a singe RAID1 pair, as you seem to be describing above for the multiple thin node case, and hitting one node with parallel writes to multiple user mail dirs, you'll get less performance than EXT3/4 on that mirror pair--possibly less than half, depending on the size of the disks

Re: [Dovecot] Better to use a single large storage server or multiple smaller for mdbox?

2012-04-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/7/2012 3:45 PM, Robin wrote: Putting XFS on a singe RAID1 pair, as you seem to be describing above for the multiple thin node case, and hitting one node with parallel writes to multiple user mail dirs, you'll get less performance than EXT3/4 on that mirror pair--possibly less than half,