Re: [Dovecot] Disconnect users for a distinct period of time?

2012-09-07 Thread Eric Rostetter
than mine. -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!

Re: [Dovecot] Performance-Tuning

2011-11-08 Thread Eric Rostetter
of a front-end, I just happen to have a front-end machine to do it). Perdition will query ldap for the info per user/connection, and send the connection to the correct dovecot instance based on the ldap lookup. Worked for me, your milage may vary... -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics

Re: [Dovecot] Performance-Tuning

2011-11-08 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting Peer Heinlein p.heinl...@heinlein-support.de: The problem is: You're running in problems with shared folders. You can't read your neighbors storage-engine from ldap. Yes, but I didn't have any shared folders, so it worked. Your milage may vary, as I said... :) -- Eric Rostetter

Re: [Dovecot] GFS (Was: dovecot Digest, Vol 93, Issue 41)

2011-01-18 Thread Eric Rostetter
) it seems to work fine... I've used it for another project also without problems (been running for years now in both cases). -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!

Re: [Dovecot] Best Cluster Storage

2011-01-14 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting Patrick Westenberg p...@wk-serv.de: just to get it right: DRBD for shared storage replication is OK? Yes, but only if done correctly. ;) There is some concern on Stan's part (and mime) that you might do it wrong (e.g., in a vm guest rather than at the vm host, etc). -- Eric

Re: [Dovecot] Best Cluster Storage

2011-01-14 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting Patrick Westenberg p...@wk-serv.de: Eric Rostetter schrieb: Quoting Patrick Westenberg p...@wk-serv.de: just to get it right: DRBD for shared storage replication is OK? Yes, but only if done correctly. ;) There is some concern on Stan's part (and mime) that you might do it wrong

Re: [Dovecot] Best Cluster Storage

2011-01-14 Thread Eric Rostetter
. Should you do it? No. Would I do it? Never... -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!

Re: [Dovecot] Best Cluster Storage

2011-01-14 Thread Eric Rostetter
? There are implications of whether you do drbd+lvm or lvm+drbd when it comes to things like lvm snapshots, growing/shrinking lvm volumes, etc. Some thought may be needed to make sure you configure it in such a way as to meet your needs... -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University

Re: [Dovecot] SSD drives are really fast running Dovecot

2011-01-13 Thread Eric Rostetter
if you are virtualizing, and what raid levels to use... But these are just my opinions and your milage may vary... -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!

Re: [Dovecot] Best Cluster Storage

2011-01-13 Thread Eric Rostetter
. And sometimes, it is just a religious thing. So I don't think you will get much of a consensus as to which is best since it really depends... -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!

Re: [Dovecot] Best Cluster Storage

2011-01-13 Thread Eric Rostetter
on all my clusters. How do you bond the connections? Do you just use Linux kernel bonding? Or some driver level stuff? Linux kernel bonding, mode=4 (IEEE 802.3ad Dynamic link aggregation). -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!

Re: [Dovecot] Best Cluster Storage

2011-01-13 Thread Eric Rostetter
usually conflicts with the uptime desire for a cluster... But that is up to the implementor to decide on... []'sf.rique -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!

Re: [Dovecot] Best Cluster Storage

2011-01-13 Thread Eric Rostetter
question, no, I don't need to do anything else with the crossover cable implementation. -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!

Re: [Dovecot] Maildir feature I'd like to see - SSD for newer messages

2010-12-23 Thread Eric Rostetter
answer that). -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!

Re: [Dovecot] Question about slow storage but fast cpus, plenty of ram and dovecot

2010-12-12 Thread Eric Rostetter
of indexes. The next highest users are 54M, 52M, 43M, 38M, 32M, 30M, 27M, 23M, 22M, and then tons of users in the teens... So your situation doesn't seem to be the norm... I guess it depends on your site (users, quotas, number of folders per user, etc). -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics

Re: [Dovecot] Question about slow storage but fast cpus, plenty of ram and dovecot

2010-12-12 Thread Eric Rostetter
lose more data, since it flushes less often). But it is a good trade off sometimes (I always raise it on my laptops in order to cut down on battery usage). -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!

Re: [Dovecot] Question about slow storage but fast cpus, plenty of ram and dovecot

2010-12-11 Thread Eric Rostetter
. #2 will be very effective, but at the cost of lost indexes upon reboot or crash. Still some room for filesystem tuning, of course, but the above two options are of course the ones that will make the largest performance improvement IMHO. -- Stan -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics

Re: [Dovecot] Question about slow storage but fast cpus, plenty of ram and dovecot

2010-12-11 Thread Eric Rostetter
, external journal, etc). Some will say XFS is better, etc. Besides, you can hardly decide the best FS until you know the mailbox format (mbox, maildir, mdbox, etc). If you want concret answers, you need concret questions... -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin

Re: [Dovecot] Question about slow storage but fast cpus, plenty of ram and dovecot

2010-12-10 Thread Eric Rostetter
version. How easy that is if you are upgrading depends on what version you run now. -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!

Re: [Dovecot] need to block user by IP address (tried denyhosts, xinetd, iptables etc)

2010-11-09 Thread Eric Rostetter
requirements. I can't believe a company with a packaging requirement run a Fedora though. That seems incongruous to me... Seems like they only have half a clue... -david -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot as exchange server?

2010-09-16 Thread Eric Rostetter
. If that doesn't meet your needs, contact Apple, as this is purely an Apple/iPhone UI issue, and not a mail server issue... -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!

Re: [Dovecot] Problems with masteruser

2010-04-09 Thread Eric Rostetter
has hooks which should allow me to fix this, but I've not had time to figure that out yet. So basically, it works for me, which just two little annoyances (one is dovecot specific, the other is actually my webmail and not dovecot). -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas

Re: [Dovecot] Problems with masteruser

2010-04-08 Thread Eric Rostetter
had shared it with everyone! But I was able to verify that a real login to real-user doesn't see the shared folder, while a master login to real-user does see it. So it is the master user login that is messing up the acl checks. -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas

Re: [Dovecot] body search very slow since upgrade from 1.0.15 to 1.2.10

2010-02-25 Thread Eric Rostetter
searches are much faster. :) -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!

Re: [Dovecot] **OFF LIST** Re: body search very slow since upgrade from 1.0.15 to 1.2.10

2010-02-24 Thread Eric Rostetter
and not seeing any problems... But that may be because I threw a lot of hardware at it? -- Stan -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!

Re: [Dovecot] **OFF LIST** Re: body search very slow since upgrade from 1.0.15 to 1.2.10

2010-02-24 Thread Eric Rostetter
that kind of thing here... -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!

Re: [Dovecot] Highly Performance and Availability

2010-02-18 Thread Eric Rostetter
is the throughput of your SAN array. Or licensing costs in some cases... Eric Rostetter is already using GFS2 over DRDB with two hot nodes. IIRC he didn't elaborate a lot on the performance or his hardware config. He seemed to think the performance was more than satisfactory. I've posted

Re: [Dovecot] GlusterFs - Any new progress reports?

2010-02-18 Thread Eric Rostetter
meet your needs, then DRBD probably isn't the proper choice. You didn't mention anything about number of nodes in your original post, IIRC. Thanks Ed W -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!

Re: [Dovecot] GlusterFs - Any new progress reports?

2010-02-18 Thread Eric Rostetter
always kept me from using it (except once, when I was setting it up on someone else's SAN). -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!

Re: [Dovecot] auth processes

2010-02-18 Thread Eric Rostetter
you forget the auth_ at the start?) -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!

Re: [Dovecot] GlusterFs - Any new progress reports?

2010-02-17 Thread Eric Rostetter
, but they are dirt cheap... Just 2 machines with the same disk setup, and a handful of nics and cables, and you are off and running... Thanks Ed W -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!

Re: [Dovecot] So, what about clustering and load balancing?

2010-02-13 Thread Eric Rostetter
without any issue, but that is because of my client base and performance expectations (and some real nice hardware). -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!

Re: [Dovecot] So, what about clustering and load balancing?

2010-02-13 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com: Eric Rostetter put forth on 2/13/2010 8:39 PM: This ignores the delivery of mail to the user (again, not so bad for maildir but a killer for mbox). If the delivery is on a separate box than dovecot your can have lock contention... You attach

Re: [Dovecot] scalability

2010-02-12 Thread Eric Rostetter
to its knees... Your help is appreciated To few details to give any definitive answers... Cheers Jonny -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot SSL issues

2010-01-29 Thread Eric Rostetter
. The novalidate-cert would also ignore any self-signed certificate warnings... -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot user

2010-01-23 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting David Halik dha...@jla.rutgers.edu: Well, I don't know how you feel about it, but you could always go with something similar to what courier does and call it doveauth while keeping the real dovecot user for the reset of the processes. +1 -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics

Re: [Dovecot] Upgrade path questions

2010-01-13 Thread Eric Rostetter
, Infrastructure and Architecture Phone: 4-5804 * * Internet ServicesOffice: 626J WBOB* * * * -- Eric Rostetter

Re: [Dovecot] First time Dovecot user, really impressed so far. What is best IMAP enabled webmail package to go with Dovecot?

2010-01-05 Thread Eric Rostetter
listen to. :) -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!

Re: [Dovecot] First time Dovecot user, really impressed so far. What is best IMAP enabled webmail package to go with Dovecot?

2010-01-05 Thread Eric Rostetter
run Horde/IMP without a SQL DB. Some Horde modules may not work without it, but the basic e-mail functionality can be used without any SQL DB. Some features may also be slower without it, but that doesn't mean it won't work or be useful without it. -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics

Re: [Dovecot] Multiple postfix + single dovecot - optimal configuration

2009-10-26 Thread Eric Rostetter
the machines and use a cluster filesystem, but that may be outside your comfort zone. I will be grateful for any advice, howto or good practices example. Depends on a lot of factors, so in the end you will have to decide... Good luck with it. -- Regards, Thomas. -- Eric Rostetter The Department

Re: [Dovecot] HA Dovecot Config?

2009-10-21 Thread Eric Rostetter
efficient than an rsync. Of course, rsync is cheaper... ;) R's, Hugo Monteiro. -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!

Re: [Dovecot] HA Dovecot Config?

2009-10-21 Thread Eric Rostetter
, but not for an active-active setup. For that you need a lock manager, which they promise in the future but don't deliver yet... Rick -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!

Re: [Dovecot] HA Dovecot Config?

2009-10-21 Thread Eric Rostetter
isn't AFAIK, so I don't think it is being cheap... I'm thinking it is more about reputation and install bases... Rick -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!

Re: [Dovecot] HA Dovecot Config?

2009-10-20 Thread Eric Rostetter
). Thanks! Rick -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!

Re: [Dovecot] Scalability plans: Abstract out filesystem and make it someone else's problem

2009-08-12 Thread Eric Rostetter
On Aug 12, 2009, at 2:21 AM, Steffen Kaiser skdove...@smail.inf.fh-brs.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Eric Jon Rostetter wrote: For a massively scaled system, there may be sufficient performance to put the queues elsewhere. Which also allows

Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.10 released

2009-01-27 Thread Eric Rostetter
... -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot panic after upgrade 1.0.15 to 1.1.2

2008-08-21 Thread Eric Rostetter
/7f5cc9e805ec I applied it, but it doesn't appear to help judging by the number of i_error log entries from my patch... Hopefully this will clear things up for the users (so they don't notice any problems). I'll let you know if not. :) -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University

Re: [Dovecot] Experience moving mailboxes from Dovecot 0.99.14 to Dovecot 1.07 = Improvement possible

2008-08-06 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting Charles Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED]: rpms for centos available on atrpms.net Sadly not for Centos 3.x, only for Centos 4/5... :( Anyone know about Dovecot 1.1.x rpms for Centos/RHEL 3.x? -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!

Re: [Dovecot] Experience moving mailboxes from Dovecot 0.99.14 to Dovecot 1.07 = Improvement possible

2008-08-06 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting Charles Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 8/6/2008, Eric Rostetter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Anyone know about Dovecot 1.1.x rpms for Centos/RHEL 3.x? I'd be more interested in upgrading the server to a reasonably recent version of the distro... Unfortunately, it isn't a redundant

Re: [Dovecot] backup strategy

2008-02-07 Thread Eric Rostetter
. Sean -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!

Re: [Dovecot] v1.1 status and benchmarks

2007-07-12 Thread Eric Rostetter
-imapd's pop3. Your milage may vary, and be related to what you are used to using. -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!

Re: [Dovecot] Will pay $500 towards a Dovecot feature

2007-05-24 Thread Eric Rostetter
the IMAP protocol and they won't consider any other options. Trying to explain to them that ssh authentication can handle virtual users is just going to result in being flamed as ignorant. I say this from experience on this list. -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas

Re: [Dovecot] Will pay $500 towards a Dovecot feature = calender ?

2007-05-24 Thread Eric Rostetter
be widely adopted or used... So IMHO, the place to start would be with trying to define a standard and get support for it, rather than coding non-standards-based code that will only be adopted by a few... -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!

Re: [Dovecot] Thinking Outside the Box - Extending IMAP

2007-05-15 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting Johannes Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 11:39 -0500, Eric Rostetter wrote: You can setup a ssh tunnel on the server on any port. The user then sets up to connect to that port. The authentication can be done anyway you want, or not at all. We're not talking ssh logins

Re: [Dovecot] Thinking Outside the Box - Extending IMAP

2007-05-14 Thread Eric Rostetter
and retrieving data, not for performing an action. So, yes, it is a possible solution for things like updating a blacklist or whitelist, but not for things like sendmail an e-mail (unless you want to create a batch mechanism for doing so). Andy. -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics

Re: [Dovecot] Thinking Outside the Box - Extending IMAP

2007-05-13 Thread Eric Rostetter
protocols. Just as it already supports multiple protocols (pop3 and imap) it could add others... No reason not to, and not reason to piggy back them through the IMAP session, IMHO. -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!

Re: [Dovecot] Email client dowloads previously read messages as new during migration.

2007-05-09 Thread Eric Rostetter
= %08Xv%08Xu Other than that, it should pretty much work from my experience... thank you! Not sure I helped any, but you're welcome in any case. -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!

Re: [Dovecot] Maillog rotates, but dovecot still writes logs into old logfile?

2007-04-19 Thread Eric Rostetter
/usr/bin/killall -HUP syslogd /etc/rc.d/init.d/dovecot restart /dev/null 21 endscript } Any other solution? Have dovecot log via syslog instead of to a file, and the problem goes away. -- Mart -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-03-30 Thread Eric Rostetter
the last couple months, I think you would recognize this. But then, I don't speak for Timo. -- Dean Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-03-30 Thread Eric Rostetter
, not really a feature. And it is actually fairly normal to add and refine documentation during a RC release. I agree in general with the no more features requests, but docs are really a whole different thing. Most shops are working on the docs right up to the last minute for every release. -- Eric

Re: [Dovecot] Version numbering

2007-03-29 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting Charles Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED]: By the way - what is 'ultruism'? At first I thought it was a typo, but you did it twice... ;) I'm very consistent with my typos. ;) Substitute the word ALTRUISIM where appropriate. -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas