Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot proxy/director and mail pop3/imap backend serviceon same server

2012-06-21 Thread Костырев Александр Алексеевич
I've already tortured Timo about that. check this thread out: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2012-June/066315.html -Original Message- From: dovecot-boun...@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-boun...@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Aerion Stevens Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 4:50 PM To: dovecot@

[Dovecot] Dovecot proxy/director and mail pop3/imap backend service on same server

2012-06-21 Thread Aerion Stevens
Hi all, I am interested in running a Dovecot Proxy(with Director) on the same server as the main Dovecot IMAP/POP3 service. I have a basic Proxy/Director configuration working, however I am struggling with getting the Proxy and IMAP/POP3 service to coexist on the same server. I plan to use three I

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot performance under high load (vs. Courier)

2012-06-21 Thread email builder
>>> Oh, and of course it also depends on Dovecot configuration :) >>> Authentication >>> cache is needed and login processes must be in high performance mode. >> >> I.e., I think: >> >> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LoginProcess >> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/Caching > > Yes. > >

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot performance under high load (vs. Courier)

2012-06-21 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 22.6.2012, at 5.28, email builder wrote: >> Oh, and of course it also depends on Dovecot configuration :) Authentication >> cache is needed and login processes must be in high performance mode. > > I.e., I think: > > http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LoginProcess > http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentica

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot performance under high load (vs. Courier)

2012-06-21 Thread email builder
> Oh, and of course it also depends on Dovecot configuration :) Authentication > cache is needed and login processes must be in high performance mode. I.e., I think: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LoginProcess http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/Caching > There is > still the extra work of fork

Re: [Dovecot] GlusterFS + Dovecot

2012-06-21 Thread Костырев Александр Алексеевич
We've considered using gluster for our mail storage a month ago. I've seen index corruption even if mail was delivered by lmtp sequentially some split-brains with no clear reason with more than 2000 mails in box we had to wait for 40sec to open mailbox through roundcube, so we've decided to go

[Dovecot] Dovecot LDA, Offlineimap and Sieve

2012-06-21 Thread Johnny
Hi, I am trying to st up Offlineimap to use Dovecots LDA to be able to use Sieve for mail filtering, but am not sure how to get this working. I think the right way would be to use 'preauthtunnel' in .offlineimaprc and try the setup below, which doesn't work. ,.offlineimaprc | [Repository Loca

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot performance under high load (vs. Courier)

2012-06-21 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 22.6.2012, at 0.58, Michael M Slusarz wrote: >> I think the conclusion is that imapproxy is not necessary. There are some >> advantages (eg with high network latency between web and imap server, and >> reducing apparent login count), and some disadvantages (extra complexity, >> slowdown) >

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot performance under high load (vs. Courier)

2012-06-21 Thread Michael M Slusarz
Quoting Ed W : I think the conclusion is that imapproxy is not necessary. There are some advantages (eg with high network latency between web and imap server, and reducing apparent login count), and some disadvantages (extra complexity, slowdown) Not entirely true. See this thread: htt

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot performance under high load (vs. Courier)

2012-06-21 Thread Ed W
On 21/06/2012 21:37, René Neumann wrote: Am 21.06.2012 22:22, schrieb Timo Sirainen: On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 13:05 -0700, email builder wrote: Do you know what webmails are caching vs. non-caching? Nearly all of them are non-caching. (I don't know of any caching ones.) At least roundcube (v0.7.

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot performance under high load (vs. Courier)

2012-06-21 Thread Ed W
On 21/06/2012 21:54, Reindl Harald wrote: and last but not least i have lesser entries in maillog which goes to a central mysql-server for self-developed web-interfaces I recently added imapproxy to my Roundcube installation. Benchmarks showed a very slight slowdown, but as you point out it r

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot performance under high load (vs. Courier)

2012-06-21 Thread Michael M Slusarz
Quoting Timo Sirainen : On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 13:05 -0700, email builder wrote: Do you know what webmails are caching vs. non-caching? Nearly all of them are non-caching. (I don't know of any caching ones.) IMP is caching (message/mailbox/folder listing), with full QRESYNC/CONDSTORE suppo

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot performance under high load (vs. Courier)

2012-06-21 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 21.6.2012, at 23.48, Reindl Harald wrote: >> Someone benchmarked Dovecot a while ago in this list with and without >> imapproxy and the results showed that imapproxy simply slowed things down by >> adding extra latency. This probably isn't true for all installations, but I >> don't think the

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot performance under high load (vs. Courier)

2012-06-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.06.2012 22:52, schrieb Timo Sirainen: > On 21.6.2012, at 23.48, Reindl Harald wrote: > >>> Someone benchmarked Dovecot a while ago in this list with and without >>> imapproxy and the results showed that imapproxy simply slowed things down >>> by adding extra latency. This probably isn't

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot performance under high load (vs. Courier)

2012-06-21 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 21.6.2012, at 23.48, Reindl Harald wrote: >> Someone benchmarked Dovecot a while ago in this list with and without >> imapproxy and the results showed that imapproxy simply slowed things down by >> adding extra latency. This probably isn't true for all installations, but I >> don't think the

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot performance under high load (vs. Courier)

2012-06-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.06.2012 22:44, schrieb Timo Sirainen: > On 21.6.2012, at 23.34, Reindl Harald wrote: > >> Am 21.06.2012 22:22, schrieb Timo Sirainen: Do you know what webmails are caching vs. non-caching? >>> >>> Nearly all of them are non-caching. (I don't know of any caching ones.) >> >> roundcub

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot performance under high load (vs. Courier)

2012-06-21 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 21.6.2012, at 23.34, Reindl Harald wrote: > Am 21.06.2012 22:22, schrieb Timo Sirainen: >>> Do you know what webmails are caching vs. non-caching? >> >> Nearly all of them are non-caching. (I don't know of any caching ones.) > > roundcube can if configured > > additionally you should insta

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot performance under high load (vs. Courier)

2012-06-21 Thread Brian Hayden
On Jun 21, 2012, at 3:22 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 13:05 -0700, email builder wrote: >> Thank you very much for the fast reply. >> We are building a new system that will support a large number of users >> (high volume, high concurrent usage, etc). We have play

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot performance under high load (vs. Courier)

2012-06-21 Thread René Neumann
Am 21.06.2012 22:22, schrieb Timo Sirainen: > On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 13:05 -0700, email builder wrote: >> Do you know what webmails are caching vs. non-caching? > > Nearly all of them are non-caching. (I don't know of any caching ones.) At least roundcube (v0.7.1 here) has some caching options:

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot performance under high load (vs. Courier)

2012-06-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.06.2012 22:22, schrieb Timo Sirainen: >> Do you know what webmails are caching vs. non-caching? > > Nearly all of them are non-caching. (I don't know of any caching ones.) roundcube can if configured additionally you should install imapproxy on the webserver wehre your webmail is runni

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot performance under high load (vs. Courier)

2012-06-21 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 13:05 -0700, email builder wrote: > Thank you very much for the fast reply. > > >> We are building a new system that will support a large number of users > > >> (high volume, high concurrent usage, etc). We have played with Dovecot, > >> but in > >> most serious applica

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot performance under high load (vs. Courier)

2012-06-21 Thread email builder
Thank you very much for the fast reply. >> We are building a new system that will support a large number of users >> (high volume, high concurrent usage, etc).  We have played with Dovecot, but >> in >> most serious applications we have traditionally used Courier IMAP.  It's my >> (lay) unde

[Dovecot] Manual manipulation of Sieve files

2012-06-21 Thread email builder
We have some scripts that take care of some tasks when creating new email accounts, such as creating some default mail filter rules. I know Sieve scripts are plain text files, but need to be compiled for use.  I see that you can use seivec to compile scripts manually, which can help me create .

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot performance under high load (vs. Courier)

2012-06-21 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 21.6.2012, at 21.05, email builder wrote: > We are building a new system that will support a large number of users (high > volume, high concurrent usage, etc). We have played with Dovecot, but in > most serious applications we have traditionally used Courier IMAP. It's my > (lay) understan

[Dovecot] Dovecot performance under high load (vs. Courier)

2012-06-21 Thread email builder
Hi, We are building a new system that will support a large number of users (high volume, high concurrent usage, etc).  We have played with Dovecot, but in most serious applications we have traditionally used Courier IMAP.  It's my (lay) understanding that with indexing and perhaps other things

[Dovecot] doveadm proxy kick in director setups

2012-06-21 Thread Tom Pawlowski
Something I noticed on a 2.1.7 director test cluster (two directors, three backends): 'doveadm proxy kick user' will kick all connections for that user on that director only. Any additional connections on other directors will remain active unless the command is run on all directors. Are the proxy

Re: [Dovecot] how to use new style namespace for INBOX

2012-06-21 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2012-06-21 2:32 AM, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote: This 'new' type of writing defines mailboxes for SPECIAL-USE as defined in http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc6154.txt. If your mail clients support it, they will automatically map their mailboxes for Sent, Junk, Trash, Drafts etc. to whatever mailbox

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot 2.1.5 performance

2012-06-21 Thread Angel L. Mateo
El 21/06/12 11:53, Timo Sirainen escribió: Look at the next sentence also: SSL/TLS proxying processes are also counted here, so if you're using SSL/TLS you'll need to make sure this count is higher than the maximum number of users that can be logged in simultaneously. I guess you don't have m

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot 2.1.5 performance

2012-06-21 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 21.6.2012, at 11.44, Angel L. Mateo wrote: > El 20/06/12 12:05, Timo Sirainen escribió: >> >>> default_process_limit = 1000 >> >> Since you haven't enabled high-performance mode for imap-login processes >> and haven't otherwise changed the service imap-login settings, this >> means that you c

[Dovecot] public namespace

2012-06-21 Thread Daniel Fischer
Hello, dovecot -n # 2.0.18: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 x86_64 Debian wheezy/sid mail_gid = 5000 mail_location = maildir:~:INDEX=/var/mail/indexes/%d/%n mail_privileged_group = vmail mail_uid = 5000 namespace { hidden = no inbox = yes list = yes locati

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot 2.1.5 performance

2012-06-21 Thread Angel L. Mateo
El 20/06/12 12:05, Timo Sirainen escribió: default_process_limit = 1000 Since you haven't enabled high-performance mode for imap-login processes and haven't otherwise changed the service imap-login settings, this means that you can have max. 1000 simultaneous IMAP SSL/TLS connections.

Re: [Dovecot] GlusterFS + Dovecot

2012-06-21 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 20.06.2012 17:50, schrieb Romer Ventura: > Hello, > > > > Has anyone used GlusterFS as storage file system for dovecot or any other > email system..? > > > > It says that it can be presented as a NFS, CIFS and as GlusterFS using the > native client, technically using the client would all

Re: [Dovecot] GlusterFS + Dovecot

2012-06-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/20/2012 10:50 AM, Romer Ventura wrote: > Has anyone used GlusterFS as storage file system for dovecot or any other > email system? I have not, but can tell you from experience and education that distributed filesystems don't work well with transactional workloads such as IMAP and SMTP. The